From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10921 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2014 22:43:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-ports-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-ports-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 10878 invoked by uid 89); 8 Jan 2014 22:43:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:43:26 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s08MhMok021166 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 8 Jan 2014 17:43:23 -0500 Received: from [10.3.113.78] (ovpn-113-78.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.78]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s08MhM8s031062; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 17:43:22 -0500 Message-ID: <52CDD48A.80009@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:43:00 -0000 From: "Carlos O'Donell" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Pinski , Marcus Shawcroft CC: Marcus Shawcroft , "libc-ports@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] [AArch64] Define BE loader name. References: <1388597841-30225-1-git-send-email-marcus.shawcroft@linaro.org> <5B4A856A-A214-4F20-83D2-BAD886EB9F04@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-01/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 On 01/06/2014 12:16 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote: >> Cavium / montavista do have the option of creating a symlink in order >> to ease the transition. > > No this still broken. We need technical arguments from both sides to reach consensus. Marcus has to come up with real reasons for needing the new dynamic linker name. Andrew, you need to come up with concrete reasons for not wanting to use a symlink or a copy. This is *exactly* the same kind of change we made for the 32-bit ARM hard-float dynamic linker name change. The only wrinkle is that a symlink doesn't actually work: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-10/msg00670.html If Markus is suggesting using a symlink he'll have to look into the problem I posted, because the last time I checked the symlink setup didn't work and required a hack to be used until all binaries had been migrated. Thankfully in the case of the hard-float dynamic linker name change we had consensus that the name change was needed to support a mixed environment. Cheers, Carlos.