RE: [Tuxnes-devel] Trying to build on OpenBSD 2.9

[HUYNH,SONTRI (HP-Richardson,ex1) <son...@hp...>]

Hello, once again..

Still no further on the OpenBSD build, I thought I'd try it
out on a FreeBSD machine to see how that would go.  I had
to steal a getopt.h from binutils (although, there are tons
of them.. so, neither of these systems really has a default
one it seems, which should be noted).  So after throwing
that in the include path, I get this same error on this
4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD machine, as on my OpenBSD/i386 2.9 machine:

ld -r -b binary -r -defsym TRANS_TBL=_binary_compdata_start  -o table.o
/usr/libexec/elf/ld: no input files

So, I still have that same question.. what am I supposed to be linking
here, or is this whole line wrong somehow?  (although this ld 
recognizes -b and -defsym at least).


> As for the "ld" command you included, my suggestion is to
> upgrade your binutils!


hehehe.. well, i've done stuff like that before, but really, it's
easier said than done.  FSF binutils doesn't really support OpenBSD,
so it's not like I can just go grab a new tarball and install that.
OpenBSD users are basically dependant on the binutils that is in
the OpenBSD tree, and while on many architectures they use binutils
2.10 and newer, i386 isn't yet (currently there are 2 versions of
gas and ld in the tree)...

so, anybody have any other ideas?  maybe as simple as telling
me what that link line should be?  the "$<" in the Makefile line
ld -r -b binary -r -defsym TRANS_TBL=_binary_compdata_start $< -o table.o
is confusing me here..

thanks,
Tomo