From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Nick Clifton <nickc@cambridge.redhat.com>
To: Aaron Schlesinger <mortehl@yahoo.com>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Binutils 2.11 and BSDI 4.2
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 07:16:00 -0000
Message-id: <m3itfq687b.fsf@north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com>
References: <20010814135313.7394.qmail@web12501.mail.yahoo.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00287.html

Hi Aaron,

> Hmm.. I tried resolving this myself, by adding this to
> the configure:
> 
> i[3456]86-*-bsdi* | i[3456]86-*-netbsd* |
> i[3456]86-*-openbsd*)
> COREFILE=netbsd-core.lo
> ;;
> 
> It selects netbsd-core as the one to use, but then it
> dies on netbsd-core.c since I don't have a sys/core.h
> file header on my system.. Any further thoughts?

How about just not supporting core files on your system ?  

Ie just change your patch to:

  i[3456]86-*-netbsd* | i[3456]86-*-openbsd*)
    COREFILE=netbsd-core.lo
    ;;
  i[3456]86-*-bsdi*)
    COREFILE=
    ;;

(Yours is a "bsdi" system isn't it ?).

Cheers
        Nick