Re: Advice on the prefered way to brand ELF binaries as needed on FreeBSD

[Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 11:28:16PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>    Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 21:31:01 -0700
>    From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
> 
>    On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 12:25:15AM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
>    > Neither one is acceptable IMHO.  This is because both of them rely on
>    > __FreeBSD__ being defined,
> 
>    Is there an easy to use symbol that tells what the target arch is?  I
>    could #ifdef on that instead.
> 
> Using a #ifdef at all is wrong.  BFD is designed so that it can
> support multiple targets simultaneously.  Rather than a #ifdef based
> on the target, you must add a different target.

I was going to say exactly the same thing, but Ian beat me to it.  Any solution
that does not allow for simultaneous support of FreeBSD, Linux, and System
V.[456...] to be built in the same linker and hosted on each of those systems
is broken.

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