Binutils ld linker how to configure emulation target (no supported emulations after build)

Binutils ld linker how to configure emulation target (no supported emulations after build)

[Megora Chai]

Hello,

After successfully building binutils/ld and trying to run it I am 
getting this message-

$ ld-new
h:/binutils-2.23.1/ld/.libs/ld-new.exe: unrecognised emulation mode:
Supported emulations:

I've looked through the internals documentation and from what I 
understand you need to set up the configure or makefile so that the 
emulation mode you want is installed during the build process but I 
can't work out how you actually do that.

Would appreciate it if someone could give me a hand.

One more thing, in the main ld directory there is a file created, 
ld-new.exe, which is around 22kb and in the libs sub-folder there is 
another ld-new.exe that is around 6mb. The ld.exe I have from mingw 
doesn't seem to have any frontend or anything like that so I'm not sure 
what is going on with these two executables, hopefully someone can 
explain for me.

Thanks very much.

Re: Binutils ld linker how to configure emulation target (no supported emulations after build)

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Monday 22 July 2013 16:39:46 Megora Chai wrote:
> After successfully building binutils/ld and trying to run it I am
> getting this message-
> 
> $ ld-new
> h:/binutils-2.23.1/ld/.libs/ld-new.exe: unrecognised emulation mode:
> Supported emulations:
> 
> I've looked through the internals documentation and from what I
> understand you need to set up the configure or makefile so that the
> emulation mode you want is installed during the build process but I
> can't work out how you actually do that.

the --enable-targets option controls what emulations are available.  pass it a 
value of "all" to get them all.  not that i think this is actually what your 
trouble is ...

you might want to try installing it first and then running the installed `ld`.

> One more thing, in the main ld directory there is a file created,
> ld-new.exe, which is around 22kb and in the libs sub-folder there is
> another ld-new.exe that is around 6mb. The ld.exe I have from mingw
> doesn't seem to have any frontend or anything like that so I'm not sure
> what is going on with these two executables, hopefully someone can
> explain for me.

probably one is a shell script created by libtool to run the right local ld 
with the right library paths set up
-mike

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