On 05-05-2008 08:40:41 +0200, Duft Markus wrote:
> No, it's not ELF :) it's PE, just like any other binary on windows.

Ok.

> > So, for those experts of you, wasn't it a good thing to install
> > binutils?  Is there something missing?  What is the reason ld and as
> > aren't compiled?
> 
> The "PE" ist the reason for not building as and ld. It simply doesn't work 
> right now (because whats called PE from binutils POV is mingw/cygwin). 
> Microsoft has binutils 2.17 patched for interix in interix 6.0 (with 
> sources/patches available), but the patch is absolutely unportable to 2.18 
> *arg...*, and in some places looks really hack-ish... still, maybe using 
> binutils 2.17 would be an option...

I guess it certainly is, since I'm on Win2K with Interix 3.5, and I've
seen some assertions going off a few times in the linker.

But, your modifications to binutils made me believe that binutils should
be installed, otherwise I would've expected it to be masked, and the
system packages set to use native-cctools instead... ?

> Maybe you want to have a look at 
> http://prefix-launcher.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/prefix-launcher/eprefix-bootstrap/trunk/eprefix-bootstrap?view=markup.
>  There i fixed all those issues you stumbled upon that don't belong in the 
> tree (where the rest is ;)), and i think it's quite readable (also the 
> binutils problem is fixed, though a little hackish too :))

I don't see any "fix" there for sys-devel/binutils, so how do I get it
to be compiled properly?


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