ar rejects as-produced object on HP-UX 10.20

ar rejects as-produced object on HP-UX 10.20

[Alexandre Oliva]

This is with H.J.Lu's binutils 2.9.5.0.21, but it is very likely to
occur with binutils CVS too:

oliva@lully% cat test.c
void foo() {}
oliva@lully% gcc -c test.c
oliva@lully% ar c libtest.a test.o
ar: can't set BFD default target to `hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20': Invalid bfd target

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Re: ar rejects as-produced object on HP-UX 10.20

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < orvh6l85l2.fsf@cupuacu.lsd.ic.unicamp.br >you write:
  > This is with H.J.Lu's binutils 2.9.5.0.21, but it is very likely to
  > occur with binutils CVS too:
  > 
  > oliva@lully% cat test.c
  > void foo() {}
  > oliva@lully% gcc -c test.c
  > oliva@lully% ar c libtest.a test.o
  > ar: can't set BFD default target to `hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20': Invalid bfd tar
  > get
Well, I use this stuff daily.  This looks more like HJ botched something.
Particularly since "ar c" should give the error "no operation specified".

jeff

Re: ar rejects as-produced object on HP-UX 10.20

[H.J. Lu]

> 
> 
>   In message < orvh6l85l2.fsf@cupuacu.lsd.ic.unicamp.br >you write:
>   > This is with H.J.Lu's binutils 2.9.5.0.21, but it is very likely to
>   > occur with binutils CVS too:
>   > 
>   > oliva@lully% cat test.c
>   > void foo() {}
>   > oliva@lully% gcc -c test.c
>   > oliva@lully% ar c libtest.a test.o
>   > ar: can't set BFD default target to `hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20': Invalid bfd tar
>   > get
> Well, I use this stuff daily.  This looks more like HJ botched something.
> Particularly since "ar c" should give the error "no operation specified".
> 

Since HPPA is still work in progress which means the binutils from CVS
may be broken at any given time, I disabled HPPA support in my binutils.


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Re: ar rejects as-produced object on HP-UX 10.20

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 19991129202953.7A9E11B493@ocean.lucon.org >you write:
  > > 
  > > 
  > >   In message < orvh6l85l2.fsf@cupuacu.lsd.ic.unicamp.br >you write:
  > >   > This is with H.J.Lu's binutils 2.9.5.0.21, but it is very likely to
  > >   > occur with binutils CVS too:
  > >   > 
  > >   > oliva@lully% cat test.c
  > >   > void foo() {}
  > >   > oliva@lully% gcc -c test.c
  > >   > oliva@lully% ar c libtest.a test.o
  > >   > ar: can't set BFD default target to `hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20': Invalid b
  > fd tar
  > >   > get
  > > Well, I use this stuff daily.  This looks more like HJ botched something.
  > > Particularly since "ar c" should give the error "no operation specified".
  > > 
  > 
  > Since HPPA is still work in progress which means the binutils from CVS
  > may be broken at any given time, I disabled HPPA support in my binutils.
It is only a work in progress for the ELF stuff.  The SOM support is rock
solid.

Disabling the ELF stuff is certainly the right thing to do.

jeff

Re: ar rejects as-produced object on HP-UX 10.20

[H . J . Lu]

On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 01:32:48PM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> It is only a work in progress for the ELF stuff.  The SOM support is rock
> solid.
> 
> Disabling the ELF stuff is certainly the right thing to do.
> 
> 

Alexandre, this is against binutils 2.9.5.0.21. I cannot test it since
it doesn't support cross compile from my OSes. Let me know if it works
for you.

Thanks.


H.J.
---
Mon Nov 29 17:07:38 1999  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>

	* config.bfd (targmatch.h): Enable som_vec only.

---
Index: config.bfd
===================================================================
RCS file: /work/cvs/gnu/binutils/bfd/config.bfd,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -p -r1.12 config.bfd
--- config.bfd	1999/10/10 19:22:09	1.12
+++ config.bfd	1999/11/30 01:06:41
@@ -216,6 +216,13 @@ case "${targ}" in
     targ_selvecs=bfd_elf32_hppa_vec
     ;;
 #endif /* defined (HOST_HPPAHPUX) || defined (HOST_HPPABSD) || defined (HOST_HPPAOSF) */
+#else
+#if defined (HOST_HPPAHPUX) || defined (HOST_HPPABSD) || defined (HOST_HPPAOSF) || defined (HOST_HPPAMPEIX)
+  hppa*-*-bsd* | hppa*-*-hpux* | hppa*-*-hiux* | hppa*-*-mpeix* | \
+  hppa*-*-osf*)
+    targ_defvec=som_vec
+    ;;
+#endif /* defined (HOST_HPPAHPUX) || defined (HOST_HPPABSD) || defined (HOST_HPPAOSF) */
 #endif
 
   i370-*-*) 

Re: ar rejects as-produced object on HP-UX 10.20

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 29, 1999, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 01:32:48PM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>> It is only a work in progress for the ELF stuff.  The SOM support is rock
>> solid.

>> Disabling the ELF stuff is certainly the right thing to do.

> Alexandre, this is against binutils 2.9.5.0.21. I cannot test it since
> it doesn't support cross compile from my OSes. Let me know if it works
> for you.

Nope, it doesn't; same problem :-(

In fact, I can't find the place in which config.bfd is preprocessed;
is it?  Or the #ifdefs are in place just for documentation?

Unfortunately, I've got very slow guest access to an HP/UX host, so
it's quite hard to debug it.  And, as you wrote, cross-building
doesn't work; som.c is completely `#ifdef'ed away, and som_vec ends up
undefined :-(

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Re: ar rejects as-produced object on HP-UX 10.20

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < oremd61rwv.fsf@garnize.lsd.ic.unicamp.br >you write:
  > > Alexandre, this is against binutils 2.9.5.0.21. I cannot test it since
  > > it doesn't support cross compile from my OSes. Let me know if it works
  > > for you.
  > 
  > Nope, it doesn't; same problem :-(
  > 
  > In fact, I can't find the place in which config.bfd is preprocessed;
  > is it?  Or the #ifdefs are in place just for documentation?
I recommend using a standard binutils release, not HJ's releases.  
jeff

Re: ar rejects as-produced object on HP-UX 10.20

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec  1, 1999, Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> wrote:

> I recommend using a standard binutils release, not HJ's releases.  

The latest binutils release is 2.9.1.  I was testing H.J.'s releases
in the hope that it would help get a new FSF release of binutils out
of the door.  Only after having installed it on a dozen of platforms
and finding problems on a couple of them I found out there were some
non-trivial divergences between H.J's and Sourceware trees.  Even
though I have spotted some problems that were particular to H.J.'s
releases, some are also present in the Sourceware tree.

I myself would rather have both work on as many platforms as possible
:-)

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Re: ar rejects as-produced object on HP-UX 10.20

[Ian Lance Taylor]

   From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
   Date: 01 Dec 1999 15:40:00 -0200

   In fact, I can't find the place in which config.bfd is preprocessed;
   is it?  Or the #ifdefs are in place just for documentation?

The file targmatch.h is built from config.bfd using targmatch.sed.
The #ifdefs are copied into targmatch.h.  targmatch.h is then included
by targets.c to build the bfd_target_match array.

Ian