On Tue, 2021-08-03 14:59:17 -0400, John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me> wrote:
> As discussed previously, a.out support is now quite deprecated, and in
> some cases removed, in both Binutils itself and NetBSD, so this legacy
> default makes little sense. `netbsdelf*` and `netbsdaout*` still work
> allowing the user to be explicit about there choice. Additionally, the
> configure script warns about the change as Nick Clifton requested.
> 
> One possible concern was the status of NetBSD on NS32K, where only a.out
> was supported. But per [1] NetBSD has removed support, and if it were to
> come back, it would be with ELF. The binutils implementation is
> therefore marked obsolete, per the instructions in the last message.
> 
> With that patch and this one applied, I have confirmed the following:
> 
> --target=i686-unknown-netbsd
> --target=i686-unknown-netbsdelf
>   builds completely
> 
> --target=i686-unknown-netbsdaout
>   properly fails because target is deprecated.
> 
> --target=vax-unknown-netbsdaout builds completely except for gas, where
> the target is deprecated.

For my test builds, it seems that with --target=m68k-netbsdelf, a
"make all-gas" fails:


[all 2021-08-15 17:11:44] checking for sigsetjmp... 
[all 2021-08-15 17:11:44] checking linker --as-needed support... no
[all 2021-08-15 17:11:44] checking for cos in -lm... yes
[all 2021-08-15 17:11:44] *** Configuration m68k-unknown-netbsdelf is obsolete.
[all 2021-08-15 17:11:44] *** Support has been REMOVED.
[all 2021-08-15 17:11:44] make: *** [Makefile:3210: configure-opcodes] Error 1

I guess that was not intended? (Still working at
fd986183343387b019080d81838ad9371593b219, but broken at
ec1e5afa895ea5f19f4b47d0e04fafe0a18f33ff.)

MfG, JBG

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