Re: [Elftoolchain-developers] libelf and cross-platform portability

[Joseph K. <jk...@us...>]

> the first time I looked at libelf, it didn't work on NetBSD due to
> various macros and types missing from NetBSD's elf.h. This has been

Recent trees should work on NetBSD 5 though.

> This brings me to my question of whether this is really the best
> approach. Wouldn't it be much easier if libelf provide its own elf.h
> replacement with predictable content based on the libelf version and
> nothing else? This would also make it easier to use ELF (and DWARF) as
> intermediate formats for compiler and other toolchain stuff.

This is on the cards (ticket #265) and will be done before we make our
first release.

On the topic of NetBSD, we also need to setup an automated build/test
tool to periodically build the source tree and run regression tests on
NetBSD.  Is there an existing facility (perhaps a buildbot farm?)
that we could use?

Koshy