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 f49Dk3W26882 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 9 May 2001 06:46:03 -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 f49DjwF26877; Wed, 9 May 2001 06:45:58 -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 IAA25553; Wed, 9 May 2001 08:45:52 -0500 Message-ID: <3AF94D3C.98A4E8@cotw.com> Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 08:59:24 -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: Andreas Jaeger CC: Florian Lohoff , 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> <3AF934AE.38AB0089@cotw.com> <3AF93D3F.5E57070@cotw.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > > There's the patch. It's not much but it is correct. I have built multiple > > But it's not complete. AFAIK remember you posted a patch with some > more changes and HJ even suggested to remove the rtld-ldscript.in file. > I had this discussion with Ralf. He had reasons to not remove this file altogether. Perhaps some input from him would be prudent. Ralf?! > I need an update for the FAQ that explains which binutils version is > required for MIPS and I prefer to have a test that checks on > MIPS-Linux for the correct emulation in ld. > As far as the versions for binutils: HJLu binutils-2.11.90.0.5 or greater CVS binutils binutils 2.11.1? (I'm not sure what the next release number is) For the correct ld emulation, I assume you mean make changes in glibc to check for the proper target 'elf[32|64]trad[little|big]mips'? -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