Advice on the prefered way to brand ELF binaries as needed on FreeBSD

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Wed Apr 12 09:13:00 GMT 2000


On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 03:53:47PM +1000, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > Is there an easy to use symbol that tells what the target arch is?  I
> > could #ifdef on that instead.
> 
> You could add some autoconf magic to bfd/acinclude.m4.  Try something
> similar to BFD_BINARY_FOPEN, but testing $target for freebsd.  This will
> get you a defined macro in config.h that you can test elsewhere.  It may
> not be a bad idea to move ELF_DYNAMIC_INTERPRETER into there too.
> 

Please don't do that, at least not in the official source.. The target
is the processor ABI, not the OS ABI.


H.J.


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