[PATCH 0/9] eBPF support for GNU binutils

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Thu May 23 12:57:00 GMT 2019


Hi Jose,

> The target is intended to be configured with target=bpf (or
> target=bpf-none-none) and in that case `is_elf_format' returns 0.
> 
> You must have configured with target=bpf-whatever-elf or
> bpf-whatever-linux or similar.  Hence all these tests get executed, and
> fail.

Right - that is exactly what happened.

> I could add checks to all the .exp files of the involved tests to skip
> if istarget bpf-*-*, if you think that is better.  But I think it is
> more reasonable to have is_elf_format return 0 for now, as other "funny"
> targets do.

I think either have is_elf_format return zero, or - better in my opinon -
just have config.bfd reject bpf-*-elf and bpf-*-linux-gnu with a "not yet
fully supported" message. 

Cheers
  Nick




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