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 f49CRvJ22595 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 9 May 2001 05:27:57 -0700 Received: from Cantor.suse.de (ns.suse.de [213.95.15.193]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f49CRoF22590; Wed, 9 May 2001 05:27:50 -0700 Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E2281E24E; Wed, 9 May 2001 14:27:49 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: gee.suse.de: aj set sender to aj@suse.de using -f Mail-Copies-To: never To: sjhill@cotw.com 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> From: Andreas Jaeger Date: 09 May 2001 14:27:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3AF934AE.38AB0089@cotw.com> ("Steven J. Hill"'s message of "Wed, 09 May 2001 07:14:38 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk "Steven J. Hill" writes: > 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. Ok, I finally understand. Can you send a new patch for glibc with an update for the FAQ? I'll add it this time. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj@suse.de private aj@arthur.inka.de http://www.suse.de/~aj