>Number:         5994
>Category:       port-mips
>Synopsis:       binutils/bfd broken on port-pmax -current
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug 19 20:20:00 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Simon Burge
>Organization:
	IBM Global Services Australia
>Release:        NetBSD-current August 13 1998.
>Environment:
System: NetBSD mona 1.3G NetBSD 1.3G (MONA) #2: Thu Aug 13 23:43:47 EST 1998 simonb@mona:/z/src/sys/arch/pmax/compile/MONA pmax


>Description:
	Subject pretty much says it all.  In the 1.3/pmax release, ar and
	ranlib were built out of the binutils-2.8 (I think) release, not
	out of the NetBSD source tree.

	This pr is in the port-pmax category because I assume it only
	affects some mips based ports.

>How-To-Repeat:
	# make build
	   watch errors

	or

	After "make && make install" in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils:

		mona:~ 83> cp -p /usr/lib/libm.a .
		mona:~ 84> chmod u+w libm.a
		mona:~ 85> ranlib libm.a
		ranlib: can't set BFD default target to `mipsel-unknown-netbsd': Invalid bfd target
		mona:~ 86> ar tv libm.a
		ar: can't set BFD default target to `mipsel-unknown-netbsd': Invalid bfd target

>Fix:
	None given; get out backup's.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: