objcopy with EFI x86_64 support

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 12:26 PM Peter Wiehe <peter.wiehe2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Am 07.12.18 um 16:54 schrieb H.J. Lu:
> > On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 6:52 AM Peter Wiehe <peter.wiehe2@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Am 07.12.18 um 15:46 schrieb H.J. Lu:
> >>> On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 6:31 AM Peter Wiehe <peter.wiehe2@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Am 07.12.18 um 15:27 schrieb H.J. Lu:
> >>>>> On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 5:25 AM Peter Wiehe <peter.wiehe2@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> I have used the option "--enable-targets=all". If this doesn't work why
> >>>>>> should the sub-set work? I've tried your suggestion nonetheless but it
> >>>>>> didn't produce an objcopy with the desired support.
> >>>>> What does your "objcopy --help" say?
> >>>>>
> >>>> objcopy: Unterstützte Ziele: elf64-x86-64 elf32-i386 elf32-iamcu
> >>>> elf32-x86-64 a.out-i386-linux pei-i386 pei-x86-64 elf64-l1om elf64-k1om
> >>>> elf64-little elf64-big elf32-little elf32-big pe-x86-64 pe-bigobj-x86-64
> >>>> pe-i386 plugin srec symbolsrec verilog tekhex binary ihex
> >>> I think EFI x86-64 is supported.  Why do you think it isn't supported?
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I quote the README from gnu-efi:
> >>
> >> .......... quote begin ............
> >>
> >> - A version of "objcopy" that supports EFI applications.  To
> >>         check if your version includes EFI support, issue the
> >>         command:
> >>
> >>           objcopy --help
> >>
> >>         Verify that the line "supported targets" contains the string
> >>         "efi-app-ia32" and "efi-app-x86_64" and that the "-j" option
> >>         accepts wildcards.
> >>
> >> ............ quote end ............
> >>
> >> That's why I assume that it's not supporting it.
> >>
> > See:
> >
> > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10074
> >
> > efi-app-x86_64 is translated to pei-x86_64.
>
> I'm going to fix the misleading gnu-efi readme. So I have to replace not
> only the 64 bit variant, but efi-app-ia32, too, despite the fact that I
> don't want to use the 32 bit variant myself. For that goal I've read
> that bugzilla file again and again thoroughly, but it escapes me to what
> efi-app-ia32 is translated to. I can't dinf a "pei-ia32". Could you,
> please, tell me?
>

Does efi-app-i386 work?

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H.J.