Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> binutils/bfd recently removed a.out and COFF support for sparc [1].
> 
> Unfortunately, this means that we are no longer able to built GRUB or 
> SILO for sparc/sparc64 which need to be built as a.out binaries as the 
> Open Boot Firmware requires them to be in a.out format [2].

Link as ELF and use elftoaout to convert to a.out.


Ciao,
Michael.