On 08/07/2018 05:52 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 08/07/2018 05:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:Hi Frank! On 08/07/2018 05:41 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:I'm no expert in these matters, but as per e.g. [1] it looks like the target "a.out-sunos-big" is not supported by the used `objcopy`.Yep, James already mentioned that on #debian-ports (you should really join now ;)).
Not sure if I can find the time for all this, but I can at least try to... :-)
Upstream removed support for a.out and coff on sparc* and mips*, see:https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2018-08/msg00138.html
Ooops and already happened in April. Would be cool if we knew the reason for this removal.
I sometimes wonder if it means more effort to (re-)port code to a specific architecture than to maintain existing code for a specific architecture.
Aha, COFF/A.OUT support for MIPS was already restored:https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=8e415ce8fee234cd86f29d8f4ebbbdf0f9c0b031
Hopefully this can also be done for sparc(64).