Problem with linking a.out-i386 files on a solaris host

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Carl,

> I have built the most recent binutils with support for all possible
> targets.
> 
> When I execute:
> 
> ld -b a.out-i386 file1.o file2.o file3.o file4.o --oformat a.out-i386 -o outfile
> 
> I get warnings like 
> 
> 'ld: warning: i386 architecture of input file `file1.o' is incompatible with sparc output'

These warnings can be suppressed with the "--no-warn-mismatch" switch,
but I guess that this is not what you really want.

> But I am not trying to generate a sparc output file. I am in fact trying to generate a 
> a.out-i386  output file.

Indeed - it seems that the --oformat functionality of the linker is
severely broken.  If the specified output format is not a variation of
the default output format the linker does not behave very well at
all.  I would recommend, for now, that you build an a.out-i386
targeted, sparc hosted linker instead and use that to create your
'outfile' binary.

Cheers
        Nick