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Re: How to add a new target in BFD?
> The tool is proprietary to Red Hat.
The tool is GPL and in the same public cvs repository as binutils.
How can that be proprietary? It even has a special exception for cgen
output files.
> For cgen generated binutils ports, that means the cgen *.cpu input
> file. If you are distributing binutils sources, and you are not
> distributing cgen sources, one could argue that you are violating
> the GPL.
So... distribute the .cpu files. We're in the process of moving them
out of the src/cgen/cpu directory into src/cpu anyway, just for this
reason.
> then at the minimum I think we need to move all *.cpu input files
> from cgen to binutils,
We're already doing that.