Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 20:09:22 -0400 From: "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@videotron.ca> To: Jason <jes@hal-pc.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF preparation step 2 done Message-ID: <357F2032.E8540881@videotron.ca> References: <01bd9495$ef551350$016f6f6f@jason.vipersystems.com>
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Jason wrote: > > >The & of all Evil wrote: > >> "Brian Feldman" <brianfeldman@hotmail.com> writes: > >> > >> > Well, after making world and having all /usr/libexec/{elf,aout}, I > guess one could make an ELF world in a couple steps, if they're interested: > >> > 1. export BINFORMAT=elf and make usr.bin/objformat, and make install it > >> > 2. go to lib/, 'echo "BINFORMAT=elf" > /etc/objectformat' and make all > the libs, and install them (to /usr/lib? mine installed there, I moved them > to /usr/lib/elf, should the elf libs really be there or just /usr/lib?) > >> > 3. make the world; it _should_ work now, but I didn't try it > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Obviously. > > > >> > >> singularity:/usr/src/lib 14# make all > >> ===> libcom_err > >> cc -O -pipe -c /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/com_err.c -o com_err.o > >> Unrecognized line in /etc/objectformat: BINFORMAT=elf > >> Unrecognized line in /etc/objectformat: BINFORMAT=elf > >> com_err.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized > > > >A few things (not necessarily all) you need to do: > > > >1. Make world to get aout and elf tools (built as aout executables) in > > their new places and objformat installed in /usr/bin. > >2. chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp > >3. rm -rf /usr/obj/* > >4. Create /etc/objectformat with the line OBJFORMAT=elf > >5. Add BINFORMAT=elf to /etc/make.conf > >6. cd /usr/src/csu/i386-elf; make obj/depend/all/install > >7. cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/libgcc; make obj/depend/all/install > >8. cd /usr/src/lib/libc; make obj/depend/all/install > >9. cd /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf; make obj/depend/all/install > >10. cd /usr/src/lib; make obj/depend/all/install > >11. cd /usr/src/gnu/lib; make obj/depend/all/install > >12. cd /usr/src; make obj/depend/all/install > > > >I have tried this. Step 12 bombs in src/gnu/usr.bin/ld. > > The big problem is make.conf isn't included soon enough to get the > BINFORMAT=elf, instead it relies on test mostly of > > .if ${MACHINE} == "alpha" > BINFORMAT?= elf > .else > BINFORMAT?= aout > .endif > > This is also why when building elf libraries that they are installed by > default into /usr/lib/aout. Can you say bad magic number? > > This needs to be fixed to get an elf machine with a buildworld/makeworld. > > One work around maybe to go into your src/share/mk directory and at the top > of each makefile put a BINFORMAT=elf just to be shure. > > -Jason- An easier way is to include make.conf before bsd.own.mk in sys.mk I don't know if it breaks something else in the build environment as I didn't get any response from the list or the PR I sent but it had been working fine for me so far. Stephane To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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