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Building a cross binutils for Solaris/x86 target

Michael Wetherell mike.wetherell@ntlworld.com
Mon Mar 19 15:52:00 GMT 2007 
On Friday 16 Mar 2007 16:18, Alex Bennee wrote:
> One of the toolchains we use at work is a Solaris/x86 target hosted
> on Linux/x86. One of my colleagues hacked up binutils 2.16.1 to
> enable it to link a Solaris binary.
>
> I'm in the process of porting them 2.17 and would very much like to
> submit the patches upstream if I can do them neatly. However my
> autoconf magic is a little rusty.
>
> In the BFD the linker is specified in elf64-x86-64.c as
> "/lib/ld64.so.1" when on Solaris is needs to be in
> "/lib/amd64/ld.so.1". Are there any config variables passed to the C
> code that I can use to #ifdef this?
>
> I had a brief scan through config.h but couldn't see anything
> helpful.

Hi,

It should be working already, did you try a recent version?

Regards,
Mike
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