Developing OpenBSD support

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Sun Feb 24 11:16:00 GMT 2002


On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 01:47:57PM -0500, Paul Wright wrote:
> 
> Hello--
> 
> I'd like to work on developing support in binutils for OpenBSD.  I haven't
> hacked on binutils before, so I don't quite know how much I've bitten off, but
> I'm pretty sure I can chew it if I work hard enough.  I'm sure you've had a few
> people express some interest in this before-- does anybody know the status of
> previous project to do this?
> 
> Looking at binutils-2.11.2, it would seem that the best place to start for
> adding support would be the BFD library-- is this correct?  Any tips, pointers,
> or other information that would be useful for somebody just getting started on
> playing with binutils?

It's already there.  Look at the current binutils snapshots; see
http://sources.redhat.com/binutils.  I see alpha, arm, i386, mips,
m68k, ns32k, and sparc ports.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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