GAS broken for m68k-netbsdelf (was: [PATCH v2] Make *-netbsd mean ELF rather than a.out for all CPU archs, deprecate ns32k-netbsd)

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

Hi John,

On Fri, 2021-09-03 22:11:16 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-08-03 14:59:17 -0400, John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me> wrote:
> > One possible concern was the status of NetBSD on NS32K, where only a.out
> > was supported. But per [1] NetBSD has removed support, and if it were to
> > come back, it would be with ELF. The binutils implementation is
> > therefore marked obsolete, per the instructions in the last message.
> > 
> > With that patch and this one applied, I have confirmed the following:
> > 
> > --target=i686-unknown-netbsd
> > --target=i686-unknown-netbsdelf
> >   builds completely
> > 
> > --target=i686-unknown-netbsdaout
> >   properly fails because target is deprecated.
> > 
> > --target=vax-unknown-netbsdaout builds completely except for gas, where
> > the target is deprecated.
> 
> For my test builds, it seems that with --target=m68k-netbsdelf, a
> "make all-gas" fails:
> 
> [all 2021-08-15 17:11:44] checking for sigsetjmp... 
> [all 2021-08-15 17:11:44] checking linker --as-needed support... no
> [all 2021-08-15 17:11:44] checking for cos in -lm... yes
> [all 2021-08-15 17:11:44] *** Configuration m68k-unknown-netbsdelf is obsolete.
> [all 2021-08-15 17:11:44] *** Support has been REMOVED.
> [all 2021-08-15 17:11:44] make: *** [Makefile:3210: configure-opcodes] Error 1
> 
> I guess that was not intended? (Still working at
> fd986183343387b019080d81838ad9371593b219, but broken at
> ec1e5afa895ea5f19f4b47d0e04fafe0a18f33ff.)


I wanted to give this a *ping*.

Thanks,
  Jan-Benedict

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