From: Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com>
To: "Arsen Arsenović" <arsen@aarsen.me>, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/24] Deprecate a.out support for NetBSD targets.
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 12:01:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00197503-1082-34b8-d870-7a677b33192a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230807105935.2098236-20-arsen@aarsen.me>
On 8/7/23 04:33, Arsen Arsenović via Gcc-patches wrote:
> From: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
>
> 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.
>
> [1]: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-toolchain/2021/07/19/msg004025.html
>
> config/ChangeLog:
>
> * picflag.m4: Simplify SHmedia NetBSD match by presuming ELF.
>
> gcc/ChangeLog:
>
> * configure: Regenerate.
>
> libada/ChangeLog:
>
> * configure: Regenerate.
>
> libgcc/ChangeLog:
>
> * configure: Regenerate.
>
> libiberty/ChangeLog:
>
> * configure: Regenerate.
OK
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-07 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-07 10:32 [PATCH 00/24] Sync shared build infrastructure with binutils-gdb Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 01/24] toplevel: Substitute GDCFLAGS instead of using CFLAGS Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:30 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 02/24] PR29961, plugin-api.h: "Could not detect architecture endianess" Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 19:16 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 03/24] gcc-4.5 build fixes Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:31 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 20:06 ` Eric Gallager
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 04/24] Sync with binutils: GCC: Pass --plugin to AR and RANLIB Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 19:15 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 05/24] GCC: Check if AR works with --plugin and rc Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:41 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 06/24] toplevel: Recover tilegx/tilepro targets Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:42 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 20:07 ` Eric Gallager
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 07/24] binutils, gdb: support zstd compressed debug sections Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:43 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 08/24] configure: require libzstd >= 1.4.0 Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:43 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 09/24] add --enable-default-compressed-debug-sections-algorithm configure option Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:53 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 10/24] gprofng: a new GNU profiler Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:44 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 11/24] Disable year 2038 support on 32-bit hosts by default Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:45 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-08 13:36 ` Luis Machado
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 12/24] Pass PKG_CONFIG_PATH down from top-level Makefile Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:47 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 13/24] configure: reinstate 32b PA-RISC HP-UX target in toplevel Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:50 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 14/24] libtool.m4: fix nm BSD flag detection Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 19:13 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 22:03 ` Nick Alcock
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 15/24] libtool.m4: fix the NM="/nm/over/here -B/option/with/path" case Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 19:12 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 16/24] Add support for the haiku operating system Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:51 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:32 ` [PATCH 17/24] egrep in binutils Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:52 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:33 ` [PATCH 18/24] PR27116, Spelling errors found by Debian style checker Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:52 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:33 ` [PATCH 19/24] Deprecate a.out support for NetBSD targets Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 18:01 ` Jeff Law [this message]
2023-08-07 10:33 ` [PATCH 20/24] PKG_CHECK_MODULES: Check if $pkg_cv_[]$1[]_LIBS works Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:54 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:33 ` [PATCH 21/24] PKG_CHECK_MODULES: Properly check " Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:54 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:33 ` [PATCH 22/24] libtool.m4: augment symcode for Solaris 11 Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 18:01 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:33 ` [PATCH 23/24] bfd: linker: merge .sframe sections Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 17:59 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 10:33 ` [PATCH 24/24] toplevel: Makefile.def: add install-strip dependency on libsframe Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 18:00 ` Jeff Law
2023-08-07 21:08 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-07 19:54 ` [PATCH 00/24] Sync shared build infrastructure with binutils-gdb Eric Gallager
2023-08-07 23:03 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-08 19:41 ` Joseph Myers
2023-08-08 22:26 ` Iain Sandoe
2023-08-08 23:10 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-08-09 20:29 ` Joseph Myers
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