On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Todd Whitesel wrote:

> > I had this idea too, but unfortunately objcopy doesn't seem to work on
> > relocatable objects, only on fully-linked objects:
> ...
> > BFD: uvm_anon.o.elf: unsupported relocation type HI22
> > objcopy: uvm_anon.o.elf: Bad value
> 
> This smells fishy; I support GDB for vxWorks at Wind River, and I use
> objcopy on relocatable objects all the time. Probably something in the
> NetBSD support.

The important part got snipped in the quote. The problem is that libbfd
doesn't support NetBSD shared a.out objects. :-)

Take care,

Bill