From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f49CNb122319 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 9 May 2001 05:23:37 -0700 Received: from cvsftp.cotw.com (cvsftp.cotw.com [208.242.241.39]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f49CNWF22312; Wed, 9 May 2001 05:23:32 -0700 Received: from cotw.com (dhcp-050.inter.net [192.168.10.50]) by cvsftp.cotw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA25101; Wed, 9 May 2001 07:22:58 -0500 Message-ID: <3AF934AE.38AB0089@cotw.com> Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 07:14:38 -0500 From: "Steven J. Hill" Reply-To: sjhill@cotw.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19pre17-idepci i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florian Lohoff CC: Tom Appermont , Ralf Baechle , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Binary compatibility break understood ? References: <20010505144708.A12575@paradigm.rfc822.org> <20010507163210.B2381@bacchus.dhis.org> <20010508202518.A13476@paradigm.rfc822.org> <20010508214313.A12528@bacchus.dhis.org> <20010509095955.A8392@sonycom.com> <20010509104635.D12267@paradigm.rfc822.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > > The whole point was to switch from our IRIX ELF flavoured binaries to > > > standard ABI ELF. These two variants are close but not identical which > > > for example made modutils missbehave. > > I will expound a bit more. When I made the changes to fix binutils and switch us from the IRIX to ABI ELF flavoured binaries the default target names changed from 'elf[32|64][little|big]mips' to 'elf[32|64]trad[little|big]mips' in binutils. This has the effect of breaking linker scripts but not a whole lot else. These will be the new targets for MIPS/Linux work. Binaries should still run just fine if you compile glibc-2.2.2 with the old or new tools. Future work though should use the 'elf[32|64]trad[little|big]mips' targets. > > What is the current status on this? The patches for the tools are already > > integrated in their cvs trees (right?). But I don't think everybody was > > happy with this in the end, aspecially the people wearing debian hats. > > Is anybody working on a solution, or are we waiting for the debian people > > to rebuild all the packages? > You bet your ass they are in CVS. The Debian MIPS people? That would be Flo and Jason M. I believe. I'm getting ready to start a flame war (well I hope not, but it has potential) on the debian-mips list right after this email. You might want to hop up there and read that if you are interested. > I'll lean back, continue building .debs and wait for others to fix it. > And this is the problem Flo. Hop up to debian-mips and lets talk. -Steve -- Steven J. Hill - Embedded SW Engineer Public Key: 'http://www.cotw.com/pubkey.txt' FPR1: E124 6E1C AF8E 7802 A815 FPR2: 7D72 829C 3386 4C4A E17D