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Re: build binutils - BFD target names

On 1/30/06, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Muhammad,
>
>[snip]
>
> What you want is an i386 targeted linker which can generated output in
> the AOUT binary file format.  So if you look through the config.bfd file
> for occurrences of "i386aout_vec" you will find those target names which
> will work.  For example I saw " i[3-7]86-*-msdos*" and so I built a
> toolchain with:
>
>   configure --enable-targets=i386-msdos
>
> and viola I had a linker which would produce the required binaries.
>
Ah, thank you very much for the explanation - it makes sense now.

> Cheers
>   Nick
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Muhammad Haggag
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