Re: [MiNT] Building nightly builds with GCC 4.7.4

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 22:19:50 , Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
> On 03/03/16 15:18, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > On 03/03/2016 14:30, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> >> #ifndef __mcoldfire__
> >>      .arch    68030
> >> +    .cpu    68030
> >>  #endif
> >
> > Thanks, Allan.
> > This is exactly why I haven't upgraded the cross-tools to GCC 4.7
> > three years ago: because this caused trouble to build FreeMiNT.
> >
> > As you mentioned above, it is now necessary to specify both .cpu and
> > .arch. This looks like a bug in the binutils. I didn't get much help
> > from binutils people.
> >
> > For memories:
> > http://mikro.naprvyraz.sk/mint/201301/msg00283.html
> >
> Yeah, it's unfortunate. And GCC is moving fast. It's now 4.9.3 for the
> 4.x series, and 5.3 for the 5.x series.
>
> I think they started removing a.out support at some point, so moving to
> ELF is getting more and more of a requirement now.
>
> Alan.

I some of the earlier discussions over the years.

Can a move to ELF be made without having to make the bigger change to
linked libs and the inevitable virtual memory ?

Regards,

Peter