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Re: QNX binutils targets
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:27:41AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:14:54PM -0400, Graeme Peterson wrote:
> > Hey.
> >
> > If possible:
> >
> > 1) I want to maintain backward compatibility with our
> > exisiting tools and the binaries the produced.
>
> You can take both ELFOSABI_NONE and ELFOSABI_QNX as valid QNX input,
> when you configure bfd with QNX targets only, but always output with
> ELFOSABI_QNX. That means the consumer of your new binaries should be
> the same version of binutils or newer.
>
> >
> > 2) I want to see that other people do not get the QNX
> > specific behavior when they build --enable-targets=all.
>
> When bfd is configured with --enable-targets=all, don't accept
> ELFOSABI_NONE for QNX.
I should say if bfd is configured with other targets which may cause
confusion, don't accept ELFOSABI_NONE as QNX input. It shouldn't be too
hard to check.
H.J.