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