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.
Er, doesn't objcopy also do that?
(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.
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.