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Date:      Fri, 15 Jan 2021 13:52:06 -0800
From:      Julio Merino <julio@meroh.net>
To:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Getting "objcopy: unsupported e_type" after buildworld
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I think I've found the problem. And... wow. The compiler that ships with
12.1-RELEASE seems to think it's targeting a little-endian powerpc64
machine... and then libelf gets built the wrong way and mayhem ensues.

I've filed https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252720 with
the details.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 5:45 PM Julio Merino <julio@meroh.net> wrote:

> Huh. I just encountered more breakage:
>
> g5:~> pkg info
> pkg: failed to get the note section
> pkg: failed to get the note section
> pkg: Unable to determine ABI
> pkg: Cannot parse configuration file!
>
> Something seems to be very wrong after this buildworld/installworld
> upgrade...
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:33 PM Julio Merino <julio@meroh.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> On the PowerMac G5 I have, I first installed 12.1-RELEASE (ppc64) as
>> found on the website.
>>
>> Now, I just went ahead and built the world from a Git checkout of the
>> stable/12 branch (at commit 49038d1723a9d45e064f482d510230ed5395b675). The
>> whole process went smoothly and I was able to upgrade to 12.2-STABLE just
>> fine.
>>
>> However... on a second attempt to clean-build the world after the
>> upgrade, I'm getting the following very early on in the process:
>>
>> ===> kerberos5/tools/make-roken (obj,all,install)
>> objcopy --strip-debug --add-gnu-debuglink=make-roken.debug
>>  make-roken.full make-roken
>> objcopy: unsupported e_type
>> *** [make-roken] Error code 1
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> --
>> jmmv.dev
>>
>
>
> --
> jmmv.dev
>


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