Subject: Re: crunchgen problem on mipsel (cross) toolchain
To: None <tv@pobox.com>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 09/06/2002 02:20:59
In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209051252390.1312-100000@sweng2.acs.internap.com>
tv@pobox.com wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> 
> : Is there any idea to fix this?
> : I posted a patch for crunchide to use libbfd before,
> : but it seems to be rejected. (because of GPL issue?)
> 
> crunchide uses libbfd now.  The CALL16 error condition only happens when
> using the BFD-ized crunchide (required for cross-compiling).

Really? I think crunchgen(1) uses objcopy(1)
instead of crunchide(1) (which does not use BFD), doesn't it?
crunchide(1) renames global symbols to hide them,
but objcopy(1) just makes them static. It would cause
CALL16 errors on mips.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp