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Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc

From: Michael Matz
Subject: Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 15:07:31 +0000 (UTC)
User-agent: Alpine 2.21 (LSU 202 2017-01-01) 
Hi,

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> binutils/bfd recently removed a.out and COFF support for sparc [1].
> 
> Unfortunately, this means that we are no longer able to built GRUB or 
> SILO for sparc/sparc64 which need to be built as a.out binaries as the 
> Open Boot Firmware requires them to be in a.out format [2].

Link as ELF and use elftoaout to convert to a.out.


Ciao,
Michael.
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