On 3/28/06, Joshua Uziel <joshua.uziel at sun.com> wrote:
> Rainer Orth wrote:
> > I wondered what the current plans are for a linker to use for the
> > OpenSolaris/PowerPC port. I can think of two alternatives:
> >
> > * Use GNU ld and provide a linker wrapper (lw, analogous to aw and cw in
> > SUNWonbld) to map from Sun ld options to gld options as far as possible.
> >
> > * Port Sun ld and ld.so (actually, all of usr/src/cmd/sgs) to ppc.
>
> The current plan (as I'm aware of it) is to start the work using the GNU
> ld since it's already available, with a switch to the Solaris ld once
> it's ported.
I can even make it more precise. Current plan is to use GNU ld as long as
we are cross building. Having system self-hosting implies having native linker
ported.
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Regards,
Cyril
