From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lug-owl.de (lug-owl.de [IPv6:2a03:4000:10:469::]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C9753857818 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2021 20:11:18 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 5C9753857818 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=lug-owl.de Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lug-owl.de Received: by lug-owl.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F1F8741F11; Fri, 3 Sep 2021 22:11:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 22:11:16 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: John Ericson Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, Alyssa Ross Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Make *-netbsd mean ELF rather than a.out for all CPU archs, deprecate ns32k-netbsd Message-ID: <20210903201116.zdqagrrzodqsvrmc@lug-owl.de> References: <20210803185917.929706-1-git@JohnEricson.me> <20210803185917.929706-2-git@JohnEricson.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4polaamsff3azqfg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210803185917.929706-2-git@JohnEricson.me> X-Operating-System: Linux chamaeleon 5.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net X-Echelon-Enable: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll X-TKUeV: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll X-message-flag: Please send plain text messages only. Do not send HTML emails. Thank you. User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: binutils@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Binutils mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:11:19 -0000 --4polaamsff3azqfg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2021-08-03 14:59:17 -0400, John Ericson 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > With that patch and this one applied, I have confirmed the following: >=20 > --target=3Di686-unknown-netbsd > --target=3Di686-unknown-netbsdelf > builds completely >=20 > --target=3Di686-unknown-netbsdaout > properly fails because target is deprecated. >=20 > --target=3Dvax-unknown-netbsdaout builds completely except for gas, where > the target is deprecated. For my test builds, it seems that with --target=3Dm68k-netbsdelf, a "make all-gas" fails: [all 2021-08-15 17:11:44] checking for sigsetjmp...=20 [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 obsol= ete. [all 2021-08-15 17:11:44] *** Support has been REMOVED. [all 2021-08-15 17:11:44] make: *** [Makefile:3210: configure-opcodes] Erro= r 1 I guess that was not intended? (Still working at fd986183343387b019080d81838ad9371593b219, but broken at ec1e5afa895ea5f19f4b47d0e04fafe0a18f33ff.) MfG, JBG --=20 --4polaamsff3azqfg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABECAB0WIQQlDTvPcScNjKREqWEdvV51g5nhuwUCYTKBYgAKCRAdvV51g5nh uwX/AKCJeSsY+3/+93xizO8X69RdEP/cXQCfQKjOt5WIluGFPqxmrX79sjxT4KY= =cpbu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4polaamsff3azqfg--