Bug#363423: binutils: [mips] ar doesn't recognize ELF64

2008-01-23 Thread Aurelien Jarno
reopen 363423 found 363423 2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 tag 363423 + fixed-upstream thanks On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:35:09PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Version: 2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 04:06:46PM -0600, Stuart R. Anderson wrote: > > Package: binutils > > Version: 2.16.1cvs20

Bug#363423: binutils: [mips] ar doesn't recognize ELF64

2006-04-20 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Ulrich Teichert wrote: > Hi, > > [del] > >> So basically you mean removing ECOFF support in binutils is not a > >> problem. Right? > > > >As I tried to explain, it will break arcload and arcboot, and probably > >some more bootloader-ish things of older machines I don't know of. > > It would also

Bug#363423: binutils: [mips] ar doesn't recognize ELF64

2006-04-20 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Ulrich Teichert wrote: I am not sure, but isn't ECOFF still in use by other, still supported OSes? irix? AIX? The patch that's attached to the bug only removed ecoff support for mips*-*-linux* and mips*el-*-linux* in an attempt to have a small an impact as possible.

Bug#363423: binutils: [mips] ar doesn't recognize ELF64

2006-04-20 Thread Ulrich Teichert
Hi, [del] >> So basically you mean removing ECOFF support in binutils is not a >> problem. Right? > >As I tried to explain, it will break arcload and arcboot, and probably >some more bootloader-ish things of older machines I don't know of. It would also make it difficult to netboot a DECstation

Bug#363423: binutils: [mips] ar doesn't recognize ELF64

2006-04-20 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Thiemo Seufer wrote: [snip] > As I tried to explain, it will break arcload and arcboot, and probably > some more bootloader-ish things of older machines I don't know of. Fortunately not true for arcload, it uses its own conversion program. So arcboot is the only one Debian needs to consider. Thi

Bug#363423: binutils: [mips] ar doesn't recognize ELF64

2006-04-20 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Thiemo Seufer a écrit : > >Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > >>On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 04:06:46PM -0600, Stuart R. Anderson wrote: > >> > >>>Package: binutils > >>>Version: 2.16.1cvs20060117-1.1 > >>>Severity: important > >>>Tags: patch > >>> > >>>ar (and ranlib) do not correctly

Bug#363423: binutils: [mips] ar doesn't recognize ELF64

2006-04-20 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Thiemo Seufer a écrit : Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 04:06:46PM -0600, Stuart R. Anderson wrote: Package: binutils Version: 2.16.1cvs20060117-1.1 Severity: important Tags: patch ar (and ranlib) do not correctly identify ELF64 files in an archive. It complains that the forma

Bug#363423: binutils: [mips] ar doesn't recognize ELF64

2006-04-20 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 04:06:46PM -0600, Stuart R. Anderson wrote: > > Package: binutils > > Version: 2.16.1cvs20060117-1.1 > > Severity: important > > Tags: patch > > > > ar (and ranlib) do not correctly identify ELF64 files in an archive. It > > complains that > > the f

Bug#363423: binutils: [mips] ar doesn't recognize ELF64

2006-04-20 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 04:06:46PM -0600, Stuart R. Anderson wrote: > Package: binutils > Version: 2.16.1cvs20060117-1.1 > Severity: important > Tags: patch > > ar (and ranlib) do not correctly identify ELF64 files in an archive. It > complains that > the format is ambiguous. > > cc -mabi=64 -