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Re: Porting BFD to new architecture


Hi,

On 12 Oct 2005 13:43:46 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> wrote:
> ibanez@sunplus.com writes:
>
> >  But to port bfd, we need to hack the bfd source code.
> >  It makes upgrade to a new libbfd version impossible without re-porting.
> >
> >  How can we add our architecture to the libbfd in a smart and transparent
> > way?
>
> We don't know.  For most targets you can port BFD by adding a few
> files and adding a line or two to reloc.c, archures.c, targets.c,
> config.bfd, and perhaps configure.in.

And don't forget to build using --enable-maintainer-mode configure flag.

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