Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] configure: Deal with OpenBSD/i386 emulation linker

[Peter Maydell]

On 7 November 2017 at 23:46, Brad Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> OpenBSD/i386 uses elf_i386_obsd for the emulation linker.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brad Smith <address@hidden>
>
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index dd73cce62f..c9dd747283 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -5159,9 +5159,9 @@ if test \( "$cpu" = "i386" -o "$cpu" = "x86_64" \) -a \
>          "$targetos" != "Darwin" -a "$targetos" != "SunOS" -a \
>          "$softmmu" = yes ; then
>      # Different host OS linkers have different ideas about the name of the 
> ELF
> -    # emulation. Linux and OpenBSD use 'elf_i386'; FreeBSD uses the _fbsd
> -    # variant; and Windows uses i386pe.
> -    for emu in elf_i386 elf_i386_fbsd i386pe; do
> +    # emulation. Linux and OpenBSD/amd64 use 'elf_i386'; FreeBSD uses the 
> _fbsd
> +    # variant; OpenBSD/i386 uses the _obsd variant; and Windows uses i386pe.
> +    for emu in elf_i386 elf_i386_fbsd elf_i386_obsd i386pe; do
>          if "$ld" -verbose 2>&1 | grep -q "^[[:space:]]*$emu[[:space:]]*$"; 
> then
>              ld_i386_emulation="$emu"
>              roms="optionrom"

Hi; just a reminder that this patch is still blocked on getting
an answer to why the correct answer for OpenBSD/x86_64 is
"elf_i386" and not "elf_i386_obsd"...

thanks
-- PMM