Re: toolchain/33052 (ld refuse "-Tdata" option on NetBSD/hpcmips)

[Nick Hudson <skrll%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/33052; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nick Hudson <skrll%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost,
 nand%mac.com@localhost
Subject: Re: toolchain/33052 (ld refuse "-Tdata" option on NetBSD/hpcmips)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:51:58 +0100

 On Monday 14 April 2008 02:05:06 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
 > Synopsis: ld refuse "-Tdata" option on NetBSD/hpcmips
 >
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended
 > State-Changed-By: dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > State-Changed-When: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:05:05 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > This is a lame and long-standing bug in GNU binutils. If you complain to
 > them loudly enough, they might fix it, but that's not too likely. (They
 > will just tell you that -Tdata doesn't make sense in ELF, which is
 > nonsense, and tell you to use a linker script, which is a pain.) If
 > skrll wants to fix it, great, but realistically that probably isn't going
 > to happen.
 
 It's fixed in binutils 2.18
 
 I was going to close this when/if I imported a newer bintuils.
 
 Nick