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Re: Issue with v2.25 on OS/2


> On 06 Jan 2015, at 09:54, Paul Smedley <paul@smedley.id.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been maintaining a port of binutils to the OS/2 platform for some years.
> 
> I updated my local source to v2.25 yesterday, and an issue with ar has 
> cropped up.
> 
> Previous versions of binutils had a symbol header of __.SYMDEF - with v2.25 I 
> get a / instead
> 
> Reading the source I see that:
> Symbol table (must be first):
> "__.SYMDEF       " - Symbol table, Berkeley style, produced by ranlib.
> "/               " - Symbol table, system 5 style.
> 
> 
> So for some reason, the OS/2 build has changed to use system 5 style instead 
> of the required Berkeley style.
> 
> Can anyone help me understand where it is defined which kind of symbol table 
> is used for a given platform?
> 
> OS/2 uses aout object format fwiw.

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