From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
To: John Ericson <mail@johnericson.me>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Subject: Re: Making *-netbsd-* to mean ELF not a.out for all CPUs
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 19:14:32 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2107201912460.9461@angie.orcam.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <465efd4f-542c-48b9-8f2d-081b37c872fa@www.fastmail.com>
On Fri, 11 Jun 2021, John Ericson wrote:
> I would like to propose that GNU tools consistently interpret configs
> with "netbsd" as meaning ELF as opposed to a.out. Currently, newer CPUs
> do that, but older ones have "netbsd" mean a.out for historical reasons,
> and "netbsdelf" is used instead. This inconsistency is a bit of a
> nuisance to my distro / package set[2] which aims to support cross
> compilation to/from arbitrary platforms without special cases. Other
> platforms that formerly used a.out (like Linux) have long since changed
> the default to be ELF, so I don't know why NetBSD shouldn't too.
Have you verified that `config.guess' with DTRT to complement your change
when indeed natively run on an old a.out installation of NetBSD?
Maciej
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-20 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-11 23:01 John Ericson
2021-06-14 11:18 ` Nick Clifton
2021-07-20 17:14 ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
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