Hello everyone,commit c9098af41e3246586a30f4f0bdb0ee4367e9a5e7 kind of broke support for FreeBSD on SPARC64. Back then old cruft (a.out and coff support) were removed for that architecture. As no other executable formats remained, a simplification for the gas targets was made at the same time, combining the former separate targets for NetBSD and OpenBSD. However the new target (sparc-*-*bsd*) also matches FreeBSD, leading to a definition of "fmt=elf em=nbsd".
This seems to work in most cases, but there are obviously subtle differences in "em=nbsd" and "em=freebsd" which leads to an assertion when linking FreeBSD's libc during a system build from source.
The attached patch differentiates those targets. I tested it on FreeBSD and it solves the linking issue. Gas should still work on NetBSD/OpenBSD, too.
Thanks for maintaining these critical programs!
--- gas/configure.tgt.orig 2020-01-07 16:52:58.735417000 +0100 +++ gas/configure.tgt 2020-01-07 16:54:02.168703000 +0100 @@ -392,7 +392,8 @@ sparc-*-linux-*) fmt=elf em=linux ;; sparc-*-solaris*) fmt=elf em=solaris ;; - sparc-*-*bsd*) fmt=elf em=nbsd ;; + sparc-*-freebsd*) fmt=elf em=freebsd ;; + sparc-*-netbsd* | sparc-*-openbsd*) fmt=elf em=nbsd ;; spu-*-elf) fmt=elf ;;
