Binutils on 4.2

[Steve Gonczi]

Greetings,
 
I have managed to 
compile binutils  2.10.1 on BSDI 4.2.
 
(I am after this, in 
the hope that I can get a working gprof out of it, that would let 
me
profile forked 
processes).
 
If anyone is 
interested, I would be glad to post my patches.
 
I have ended up with 
a binutils package that only supports the 
i386bsd format.
( The 2.9.1 binutils 
that comes with BSDI 4.2 supports   elf_i386, i386bsdi and  
i386coff).
 
Does anyone have a 
suggestion what configuration options to use for 2.10.1? to 
get
elf and coff 
support?
 
Also: I am thinking 
about porting the "latest" glibc. This has some debug/profiling 
hooks
that another 
profiling package needs. I am talking about __malloc_hook, 
__realloc_hook
and 
__free_hook.  
 
These are missing 
from all of the stock BSD 4.2 libraries. They are supposed to be 
in
libc.
 
Is using a current, 
GNU glibc instead of the shipping BDSI libc a realistic 
goal?
 
/sG
 
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