Re: [MiNT] Building nightly builds with GCC 4.7.4

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

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.