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Re: [PATCH] allow easier overriding of ELF_DYNAMIC_INTERPRETER
- From: "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>
- To: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>
- Cc: GNU Binutils mailing list <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:40:17 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow easier overriding of ELF_DYNAMIC_INTERPRETER
- Organization: The NUXI BSD group
- References: <20020125234343.A66746@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020126101345.GA24173@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Reply-to: obrien at FreeBSD dot org
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 11:13:45AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> > This patch would help out the OS porters who do not follow the psABI's to
> > the letter -- say to be consistent across the OS. I know this can be
> > tricked thru complicated linker scripts, but why not allow it in an
> > easier fashion and what does this patch really hurt? It would certainly
> > reduce maintenance costs for the BSD's.
>
> AFAICS the ELF_DYNAMIC_INTERPRETER strings are different, so
> it's more stable code to generally #undef any preceeding one.
Please state this again. I totally cannot follow you.
The intent is to use the ELF_DYNAMIC_INTERPRETER definition in elf*-*.c
_unless_ it is already defined in the Makefile or in header.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)