From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
To: MNShukla <mnshukla@cirrus.stpp.soft.net>
Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc@cambridge.redhat.com>, gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Query... 
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 03:29:00 -0000
Message-id: <E14qYA6-0003dW-00@kings-cross.london.uk.eu.org>
References: <3ADEBD3D.EE537BDA@cirrus.stpp.soft.net> <m3d7a9ypbk.fsf@north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com> <3ADFC019.451A85D5@cirrus.stpp.soft.net>
X-SW-Source: 2001-04/msg00992.html

>Can OBJ's, created by older ELF spec., be linked with GCC-linker which
>uses newer ELF spec.?

Yes.  But:

>-------/bin/ld : Error : strlen.o compiled for EABI version 0, whereas
>MN1.out is compiled for version 2.
>File format not recognized : failed to merge target specific data of file
>............./lin/libc.a (strlen.o)

The problem here seems to be that MN1.out (presumably the object you built 
with ADS) is using a *newer* version of the EABI than the linker understands.  
I didn't realise there even was a "version 2"; I don't think the GNU tools 
cope with version 1 properly yet.

p.