Rainer Orth <ro at TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> 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 first alternative might be a way to get up and running relatively
> quickly, but considering that the whole build environment relies heavily on
> the features of Sun ld (which aren't necessary available in GNU ld), and
> ld.so will be needed anyway, the second approach is certainly best long-term.
>
> Providing support for the missing features in GNU ld might be beneficial as
> well, though (and not only for ppc).
I am not sure how much of the OpenSolaris code will work this way, but
I am in hope that it helps us enough to come to a limited shell prompt.
> How as this handled during the amd64 bringup, btw.?
I believe that the Sun ld has been ported first.
J?rg
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