"Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@cotw.com> 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
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