Re: [Elftoolchain-developers] elfcopy vs objcopy

[Kai W. <kai...@gm...>]

Hi Ed,

elfcopy was among the first tools we implemented in the toolchain and we
thought we could name it elfcopy since we planned to only support ELF
format.
Then later when we implemented other tools we figured the "elf" prefix seems
to be inappropriate, but we were too lazy to change it back.

elfcopy now supports srex, ihex, binary formats etc, and I plan to add PE
support also.
So it's more or less a misnomer now... anyway I think it's ok we install it
as objcopy
under FreeBSD.

/Kai

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Ed Maste <em...@fr...> wrote:

> I have a review open for FreeBSD[1] to install elfcopy as objcopy, but
> before going ahead I'd like to understand the original motivation for
> giving the tool a distinct name in ELF Tool Chain. We support formats
> other than just ELF, although the list is smaller than GNU objcopy's.
> This is also true for other ELF Tool Chain tools though, and anyone
> installing both ELF Tool Chain and other compatible tools is going to
> need to set PATH appropriately or explicitly choose their tools
> somehow. Given this, is there a reason I shouldn't install it as
> objcopy?
>
> [1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2887
>
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