>  > by me for hppa--netbsdelf.  While it is possible to arrange everything
>  > into a tree that builds, it's hairy.  Maybe only a good source of diffs
>  > back to gcc-current, binutils-current?
> 
> binutils 2.12 and -current already have an hppa-netbsd configuration,
> which uses the elf32-hppa format.  Are you using elf32-hppa or
> elf32-hppa-linux?

elf32-hppa.  You're right, my binutils diffs (attached) are shorter than 
I thought they were.  I did have to do some work on ld/scripttempl/hppaelf.sc.
The .note section thing is one thing I know is a bad hack, and there are 
probably others.

>  > I've only ever used this cross-toolchain to make statically linked 
>  > binaries.  I would be surprised if it could make dynamic libraries 
>  > and executables.
> 
> It will probably work fine, just ld.elf_so work is needed, I guess.

Ya.

Matt

-- 
Matt Fredette

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Index: gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/configure.in
diff -u gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/configure.in:1.1.1.1 gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/configure.in:1.3
--- gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/configure.in:1.1.1.1	Thu Oct  4 12:30:24 2001
+++ gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/configure.in	Wed Nov 21 16:44:08 2001
@@ -691,6 +691,10 @@
   h8500-*-*)
     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ${libstdcxx_version} target-libgloss target-libffi"
     ;;
+  hppa*-*-netbsdelf*)
+    # No C++ support yet.
+    noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ${libstdcxx_version} target-libgloss target-libffi"
+    ;;
   hppa*-*-*elf* | \
   hppa*-*-linux-gnu* | \
   hppa*-*-lites* | \
Index: gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/gas/configure.in
diff -u gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/gas/configure.in:1.1.1.1 gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/gas/configure.in:1.2
--- gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/gas/configure.in:1.1.1.1	Thu Oct  4 12:31:18 2001
+++ gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/gas/configure.in	Fri Oct 26 11:32:39 2001
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@
 				hppa*)
 					fmt=elf em=linux;;
 			    esac ;;
+      hppa-*-netbsdelf*)    fmt=elf em=nbsd ;;
       hppa-*-*elf*)         fmt=elf em=hppa ;;
       hppa-*-lites*)        fmt=elf em=hppa ;;
       hppa-*-osf*)          fmt=som em=hppa ;;
Index: gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/gas/config/tc-hppa.h
diff -u gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/gas/config/tc-hppa.h:1.1.1.1 gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/gas/config/tc-hppa.h:1.2
--- gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/gas/config/tc-hppa.h:1.1.1.1	Thu Oct  4 12:31:27 2001
+++ gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/gas/config/tc-hppa.h	Fri Oct 26 11:32:39 2001
@@ -85,6 +85,13 @@
 
 #define ASEC_NULL (asection *)0
 
+#ifdef TE_NetBSD
+/* XXX fredette - the OpenBSD code requires this.  perhaps
+   we can add colons to it someday? */
+/* Labels are not required to have a colon for a suffix.  */
+#define LABELS_WITHOUT_COLONS 1
+#endif
+
 /* pa_define_label gets used outside of tc-hppa.c via tc_frob_label.  */
 extern void pa_define_label PARAMS ((symbolS *));
 
Index: gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/ld/scripttempl/hppaelf.sc
diff -u gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/ld/scripttempl/hppaelf.sc:1.1.1.1 gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/ld/scripttempl/hppaelf.sc:1.4
--- gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/ld/scripttempl/hppaelf.sc:1.1.1.1	Thu Oct  4 12:36:33 2001
+++ gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain/ld/scripttempl/hppaelf.sc	Fri Feb  1 11:21:34 2002
@@ -1,23 +1,38 @@
 DATA_ADDR=0x40000000
 test "$LD_FLAG" = "N" && DATA_ADDR=.
+INTERP=".interp   ${RELOCATING-0} : { *(.interp)	}"
 cat <<EOF
 OUTPUT_FORMAT("${OUTPUT_FORMAT}")
 OUTPUT_ARCH(${ARCH})
 ENTRY("\$START\$")
 ${RELOCATING+${LIB_SEARCH_DIRS}}
+${RELOCATING- /* Currently, GNU ld tries to assign section VMAs even under
+   -r, which seems to be a bug, because these section VMAs end up making
+   symbol offsets not line up with their section contents, screwing up 
+   future linking.  elf.sc seems to note the same problem by saying
+   "For some reason, the Solaris linker makes bad executables
+  if gld -r is used and the intermediate file has sections starting
+  at non-zero addresses.  Could be a Solaris ld bug, could be a GNU ld
+  bug.  But for now assigning the zero vmas works."  So we do the same. */}
 SECTIONS
 {
-  .text 0x1000 ${RELOCATING++${TEXT_START_ADDR}}:
+  /* XXX fredette - gross hack, be sure to keep the size of the
+     .note section <= 0x200 */
+  . = 0x1e00;
+  ${CREATE_SHLIB-${INTERP}}
+  .text ${RELOCATING-0} ${RELOCATING+0x1000+${TEXT_START_ADDR}}:
   {
     ${RELOCATING+__text_start = .};
     CREATE_OBJECT_SYMBOLS
     *(.PARISC.stubs)
     *(.text)
+    ${RELOCATING+*(.text.*)}
     ${RELOCATING+etext = .};
     ${RELOCATING+_etext = .};
   }
+  .PARISC.unwind : { *(.PARISC.unwind) }
   ${RELOCATING+. = ${DATA_ADDR};}
-  .data :
+  .data ${RELOCATING-0} :
   {
     ${RELOCATING+ . = . + 0x1000 };
     ${RELOCATING+__data_start = .};
@@ -26,8 +41,20 @@
     ${RELOCATING+edata = .};
     ${RELOCATING+_edata = .};
   }
-  ${RELOCATING+. = ${DATA_ADDR} + SIZEOF(.data);}
-  .bss :
+  .ctors ${RELOCATING-0} :
+  {
+    *(.ctors)
+  }
+  .dtors ${RELOCATING-0} :
+  {
+    *(.dtors)
+  }
+  .eh_frame ${RELOCATING-0} :
+  {
+    *(.eh_frame)
+  }
+  ${RELOCATING+. = ${DATA_ADDR} + SIZEOF(.data) + SIZEOF(.ctors) + SIZEOF(.dtors) + SIZEOF(.eh_frame);}
+  .bss ${RELOCATING-0} :
   {
    *(.bss)
    *(COMMON)
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