On Fri, 11 Jun 2021, John Ericson wrote: > I would like to propose that GNU tools consistently interpret configs > with "netbsd" as meaning ELF as opposed to a.out. Currently, newer CPUs > do that, but older ones have "netbsd" mean a.out for historical reasons, > and "netbsdelf" is used instead. This inconsistency is a bit of a > nuisance to my distro / package set[2] which aims to support cross > compilation to/from arbitrary platforms without special cases. Other > platforms that formerly used a.out (like Linux) have long since changed > the default to be ELF, so I don't know why NetBSD shouldn't too.
Have you verified that `config.guess' with DTRT to complement your change when indeed natively run on an old a.out installation of NetBSD? Maciej
