Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 15:17:42 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: root@enigami.com (The & of all Evil), brianfeldman@hotmail.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF preparation step 2 done Message-ID: <199806010717.PAA07555@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jun 1998 14:20:59 %2B1000." <199806010421.OAA16535@cimlogic.com.au>
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John Birrell wrote:
> The & of all Evil wrote:
> > "Brian Feldman" <brianfeldman@hotmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Well, after making world and having all /usr/libexec/{elf,aout}, I guess
one could make an ELF world in a couple steps, if they're interested:
> > > 1. export BINFORMAT=elf and make usr.bin/objformat, and make install it
> > > 2. go to lib/, 'echo "BINFORMAT=elf" > /etc/objectformat' and make all
the libs, and install them (to /usr/lib? mine installed there, I moved them
to /usr/lib/elf, should the elf libs really be there or just /usr/lib?)
> > > 3. make the world; it _should_ work now, but I didn't try it
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Obviously.
>
> >
> > singularity:/usr/src/lib 14# make all
> > ===> libcom_err
> > cc -O -pipe -c /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/com_err.c -o com_err.o
> > Unrecognized line in /etc/objectformat: BINFORMAT=elf
> > Unrecognized line in /etc/objectformat: BINFORMAT=elf
> > com_err.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized
>
> A few things (not necessarily all) you need to do:
>
> 1. Make world to get aout and elf tools (built as aout executables) in
> their new places and objformat installed in /usr/bin.
> 2. chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp
> 3. rm -rf /usr/obj/*
> 4. Create /etc/objectformat with the line OBJFORMAT=elf
> 5. Add BINFORMAT=elf to /etc/make.conf
> 6. cd /usr/src/csu/i386-elf; make obj/depend/all/install
> 7. cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/libgcc; make obj/depend/all/install
> 8. cd /usr/src/lib/libc; make obj/depend/all/install
> 9. cd /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf; make obj/depend/all/install
> 10. cd /usr/src/lib; make obj/depend/all/install
> 11. cd /usr/src/gnu/lib; make obj/depend/all/install
> 12. cd /usr/src; make obj/depend/all/install
>
> I have tried this. Step 12 bombs in src/gnu/usr.bin/ld.
I have a fully functioning make world that I believe will survive a
transition from a.out to elf.. I have a load of patches to Makefiles that
and a couple of tools (eg: install) that are needed to do this.
Cheers,
-Peter
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Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Netplex Consulting
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