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Your bfd changes broke sh sim

Danny Backx danny.backx@scarlet.be
Sat Jul 19 05:53:00 GMT 2008 
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 05:52 +0200, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > From: Danny Backx <danny.backx@scarlet.be>
> > Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:12:39 +0200
> 
> > I've tested (and tested again) with
> > 	./configure --enable-targets=all
> 
> Looks like you didn't even try and build binutils *without*
> --enable-targets=all, because you broke e.g. sh-elf (and yes,
> sh-pe too).  For --target=sh-elf, make all:

I was told to check --enable-targets=all in addition to what I was doing
(several arm targets). I did that.

Here's what I just found (unless I overlooked something) :
- I argued with Nick about where this code needed to be, the initial
  place was peXXigen.c but I argued that this appeared to be the wrong
  place because it could get generated more than once.
- Then I was given a choice where to put it, evidently I made the wrong
  choice (pe-arm-wince.c).
- I just moved it back and tested with three builds :
  configure --enable-targets=all
  configure --target=arm-wince
  configure --target=sh-elf

  and found that only the last one failed to build, even with the code
  in peXXigen.c.
- Inspection reveals that peXXigen.c isn't compiled for sh-elf, so this
  was the wrong choice too.

I see three options :
- remove the line that causes this in coff-sh.c and change it as in all
  the other architectures. Then all this only works for ARM, not for ARM
  and SH as it is supposed to.
- remove all the smart configuration stuff that Nick talked me into and
  revert all this to a dumb ARM-only patch
- find a better place to store the code

Please advise.

	Danny

> I suggest you revert your change and move
> pe_print_ce_compressed_pdata out of pe-arm-wince.c (clearly the
> wrong place) and into peXXigen.c or its own file (don't forget
> to adjust the build machinery), making it the default of a
> target-dependent hook, overridden for pe-mips or something.
> 
> brgds, H-P
> 
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Danny Backx ; danny.backx - at - scarlet.be ; http://danny.backx.info
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