i386 and i370 targets

["Paul Edwards" <mutazilah at gmail dot com>]

Hello.

I am writing a new operating system, PDOS/386,
which is meant to be a 32-bit version of MSDOS:

http://pdos.sourceforge.net

I wish to use the a.out format, and I am currently
using 2.14a which configures and makes cleanly ( * ).

I tried using 2.30:

./configure --target=i386-aout --with-sysroot --disable-nls --disable-werror

and it said that the target was obsolete and
was going to be removed.

Can I ask that this target not be removed?
I also intend to use the i370 target.

Thanks. Paul.



( * ) I had to make these minor changes:

Index: gas/tc.h
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RCS file: c:\cvsroot/binutils-2.14a/gas/tc.h,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -r1.1.1.1 -r1.2
29a30,31
> #if !defined(RELAX_TYPE_DEFINED)
> #define RELAX_TYPE_DEFINED
42a45
> #endif
Index: gas/config/tc-i386.h
===================================================================
RCS file: c:\cvsroot/binutils-2.14a/gas/config/tc-i386.h,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -r1.1.1.1 -r1.2
25a26,42
> #if !defined(RELAX_TYPE_DEFINED)
> #define RELAX_TYPE_DEFINED
> struct relax_type
> {
>   /* Forward reach. Signed number. > 0.  */
>   long rlx_forward;
>   /* Backward reach. Signed number. < 0.  */
>   long rlx_backward;
> 
>   /* Bytes length of this address.  */
>   unsigned char rlx_length;
> 
>   /* Next longer relax-state.  0 means there is no 'next' relax-state.  */
>   relax_substateT rlx_more;
> };
> #endif
>