Making *-netbsd-* to mean ELF not a.out for all CPUs

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021, John Ericson wrote:

> I would like to propose that GNU tools consistently interpret configs 
> with "netbsd" as meaning ELF as opposed to a.out. Currently, newer CPUs 
> do that, but older ones have "netbsd" mean a.out for historical reasons, 
> and "netbsdelf" is used instead. This inconsistency is a bit of a 
> nuisance to my distro / package set[2] which aims to support cross 
> compilation to/from arbitrary platforms without special cases. Other 
> platforms that formerly used a.out (like Linux) have long since changed 
> the default to be ELF, so I don't know why NetBSD shouldn't too.

 Have you verified that `config.guess' with DTRT to complement your change 
when indeed natively run on an old a.out installation of NetBSD?

  Maciej