Bug 253142

Summary:	elftoaout is sparc sparc64 only
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dennis Gilmore <dennis>
Component:	elftoaout	Assignee:	Dennis Gilmore <dennis>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	jima, pjones, tcallawa
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Bug Blocks:	179258, 179259, 238953, 179260

Description Dennis Gilmore 2007-08-17 05:35:54 UTC

Description of problem:

elftoaout is used to convert elf binaries to a.out  sparc systems need to use 
a.out to boot. silo the boot loader depends on alftoaout.

Comment 1 David Woodhouse 2007-08-17 05:47:58 UTC

Er, doesn't objcopy also do that?

Comment 2 Jima 2007-08-17 13:19:53 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Er, doesn't objcopy also do that? 

If it does, I can't find the proper incantation to make it do so.

# objcopy -O a.out-sparc-linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3149.al3.12 \
vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3149.al3.12.aout.2
objcopy: Unable to change endianness of input file(s)

# objcopy -O a.out-sunos-big /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3149.al3.12 \
vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3149.al3.12.aout.2
BFD: vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3149.al3.12.aout.2: can not represent section `.rodata' in
a.out object file format
objcopy: vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3149.al3.12.aout.2: Nonrepresentable section on output
BFD: vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3149.al3.12.aout.2: can not represent section `.rodata' in
a.out object file format
objcopy: vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3149.al3.12.aout.2: Nonrepresentable section on output

The former produces an empty output file, the latter no output file.

The listed formats include:

objcopy: supported targets: elf32-sparc a.out-sparc-linux elf64-sparc
a.out-sunos-big elf64-little elf64-big elf32-little elf32-big srec symbolsrec
tekhex binary ihex

None of those look like what we want, unless I'm missing something.

Comment 3 Jima 2007-08-28 21:49:31 UTC

Okay, it was decided a few days ago that there wasn't too much point in us
keeping people from doing unusual or flat-out insane things, so Dennis removed
the EA from elftoaout, and 2.3-10 was built for Rawhide i386/ppc/ppc64/x86_64 on
2007-08-23.

As a result, I'm going to close this bug.