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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com, jdp@polstra.com
Subject: Re: second post: elf patches for -current
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> > If I define BINFORMAT=elf in /etc/make.conf ...  can I do a make
> > world then ?
>
> No.  You need the binutils assembler and linker, at least.
>
> Also, you need the ElfKit dynamic linker.
>
> Also, there was a little patch to binutils "nm" in ElfKit which GNU
> did not accept for compatibility reasons.  Without the patch,
> "lorder" doesn't work right.  I think I could fix lorder so it works
> in either case, though.

Don't you also need the elf-branding patch to bfd/elf.c?  Unless
you want to brand your own elfs with brandelf.

I didn't find this patch incorporated into binutils-2.7.  Perhaps
binutils-2.8 has it?

Dan Eischen
eischen@pcnet.com