i386-pc-nto-qnx patch

[gp@qnx.com]

"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> said:

> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:58:59AM -0400, Graeme Peterson wrote:
> > About the ELF interpreter.  We have a different loader version in
> > 6.1+ than in pre 6.1.  We handle this in gcc (specs) and in our
> > front end 'qcc' (conf files).
> > 
> > This is how we have done it and will probably continue to do it.
> > It is how we ship our tools chain, and if we need to update the
> > loader again, then the specs and conf files for that OS version
> > will reflect it.
> > 
> > It seems to me that it is six of one, half a dozen of the other as to
> > whether this gets done in gcc or binutils.  My preference is gcc,
> > because we need to have a QNX specific specs file anyway, this is
> > how we already do it, and this limits the number of QNX specific 
> > changes that need to be rolled in and maintained in binutils.
> > 
> 
> Linux passes "-dynamic-linker /lib/ld.xxxx" to ld from gcc. I think
> it is more flexible. We strongly discourage using ld directly for
> generating DSOs and executables on Linux.
> 

Yup.  "--dynamic-linker /usr/lib/ldqnx.so.2" in our specs and conf files.

Thanks.
GP

> 
> H.J.
> 



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