Attempts on Solaris 10 SPARC

[nick clifton]

Hi Amos,

> Trying to compile a more recent binutils on Solaris 10 SPARC

> "readelf.c", line 7491: void function cannot return value

This is now fixed (in the mainline development sources).


> ./../include/elf/common.h:989:1: "AT_SUN_HWCAP" redefined
> /usr/include/sys/auxv.h:126:1: this is the location of the previous definition

This is slightly worrying - I would have expected the two definitions to 
be the same.  Can you tell me how AT_SUN_HWCAP is defined in auxv.h ?


> Anything I can do to get past this?

You could always conditionalize the definition of AT_SUN_HWCAP in 
common.h in your local sources.  Ie:

Cheers
   Nick

Index: include/elf/common.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/include/elf/common.h,v
retrieving revision 1.144
diff -u -3 -p -r1.144 common.h
--- include/elf/common.h        22 May 2013 17:02:35 -0000      1.144
+++ include/elf/common.h        18 Jul 2013 11:00:14 -0000
@@ -986,8 +986,10 @@
  #define AT_SUN_LDNAME   2006    /* String giving name of dynamic 
linker.  */
  #define AT_SUN_LPAGESZ  2007    /* Large pagesize.   */
  #define AT_SUN_PLATFORM 2008    /* Platform name string.  */
+#ifndef AT_SUN_HWCAP
  #define AT_SUN_HWCAP    2009   /* Machine dependent hints about
                                    processor capabilities.  */
+#endif
  #define AT_SUN_IFLUSH   2010    /* Should flush icache? */
  #define AT_SUN_CPU      2011    /* CPU name string.  */
  #define AT_SUN_EMUL_ENTRY 2012 /* COFF entry point address.  */