From: Frederic Cambus <fred@statdns.com>
Subject: Re: devel/gas: use same distfile like binutils
To: Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>
Cc: ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:58:41 +0100

On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 10:14:10PM +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> 28.11.2025 01:10, Pascal Stumpf ??????????:
> > On Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:44:41 +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> >> for base-gcc archs we really want to keep the number of ports in the
> >> build path to gcc low.
> >>
> >> bzip2 currently only depends on dwz (on debug pkgs archs) or nothing,
> >> so I think that's currently ok, but care will be needed to avoid loops
> >> building gcc if things change in the future.
> >>
> >> so, really i would advise switching binutils to the tar.gz rather than
> >> gas to the tar.bz2.
> > 
> > +1.  The space savings are pretty irrelevant.
> 
> Fair point, thanks.
> 
> Then gas remains as-is and binutils can sync its rdep while distinfo
> rides the revision bump.

OK fcambus@