Fwd: Re: Alpha Toolchain not compiling --BFD problem

Nick Clifton nickc@cambridge.redhat.com
Tue Dec 18 02:18:00 GMT 2001


Hi Thiemo,

> > /mnt/u2/toolchain/buildsys/source/toolchain/bfd/archive.c:940:
> > undefined reference to `bfd_elf64_archive_slurp_armap'
> 
> This function was part of elf64-mips.c before (and differently
> named).  It is called from bfd_slurp_armap() in order to support
> reading (Irix6-style) MIPS ELF64 archives.
> 
> Since the MIPS ELF64 spec claims this archive support to be generic 
> for ELF64, I enclosed it only in "BFD64" defines -- obviously a
> misassumption.
> 
> AFAICS it should only get called for MIPS targets.
> Ideas how to handle this?


Is this still an issue ?  Didn't your changes to add archive64.c fix
this ?

Cheers
        Nick



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