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[PATCH] allow easier overriding of ELF_DYNAMIC_INTERPRETER

David O'Brien obrien@FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 17 01:33:00 GMT 2002 
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:53:45AM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> > This is the basic patch I have to do this.  In general, does this
> > look OK?
> 
> Yes, but I am a little concerned.  How is a configure time option
> going to be able to override the explicit inclusion of one of these
> headers ?

This 1st patch is to have something low impact and quick that can be
merged into the 2.12 branch.
 
> > Are there issues with the length of the header file names?
> 
> Ideally it would be nice to have file names that are unique within the
> first 8 characters in order to avoid problems with FAT16 based file
> systems.  So maybe you could leave off the "elf32-" component of the
> file name and just have "dyn-arm.h" "dyn-cris.h" etc.  After all there
> is no real need to say "elf32" for this particular definition.

elf64-{sparc,hppa} conflict. :-(
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