[PATCH] install: Delete scripts/output-format.sed and support lld

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Sep 1 10:38:29 GMT 2020


* Fāng-ruì Sòng via Libc-alpha:

> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:07 AM Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>>
>> * Fāng-ruì Sòng:
>>
>> > LLD will not support --print-output-format.
>> >
>> > OUTPUT_FORMAT might be useful at some point and is still needed for
>> > unified i386/x86-64 directory trees, but not when distributions use
>> > different directory trees for multiarch.
>>
>> Sorry, I think it's not worthwhile to support LLD for building glibc
>> if it produces output that offers different functionality.  Bitwise
>> identical output is of course not necessary, but disabling parts of
>> the build output because it is inconvenient to build them using LLD is
>> not the right direction, in my opinion.
>
> Grabbing elf64-x86-64 from objdump -f libc.so.6 . Is this acceptable?

It sounds reasonable.  Does LLVM have its own objdump implementation
which provides this functionality?

Thanks,
Florian



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