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. > > What is the current status on this? The patches for the tools are already > > integrated in their cvs trees (right?). But I don't think everybody was > > happy with this in the end, aspecially the people wearing debian hats. > > Is anybody working on a solution, or are we waiting for the debian people > > to rebuild all the packages? > You bet your ass they are in CVS. The Debian MIPS people? That would be Flo and Jason M. I believe. I'm getting ready to start a flame war (well I hope not, but it has potential) on the debian-mips list right after this email. You might want to hop up there and read that if you are interested. > I'll lean back, continue building .debs and wait for others to fix it. > And this is the problem Flo. Hop up to debian-mips and lets talk. -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
