Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Deal with OpenBSD/i386 emulation linker

[Peter Maydell]

On 6 November 2017 at 00:53, Brad Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> OpenBSD/i386 uses elf_i386_obsd for the emulation linker.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brad Smith <address@hidden>
>
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index dd73cce62f..02799d38ac 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -5159,9 +5159,9 @@ if test \( "$cpu" = "i386" -o "$cpu" = "x86_64" \) -a \
>          "$targetos" != "Darwin" -a "$targetos" != "SunOS" -a \
>          "$softmmu" = yes ; then
>      # Different host OS linkers have different ideas about the name of the 
> ELF
> -    # emulation. Linux and OpenBSD use 'elf_i386'; FreeBSD uses the _fbsd
> -    # variant; and Windows uses i386pe.
> -    for emu in elf_i386 elf_i386_fbsd i386pe; do
> +    # emulation. Linux uses 'elf_i386'; FreeBSD uses the _fbsd variant;
> +    # OpenBSD uses the _obsd variant; and Windows uses i386pe.
> +    for emu in elf_i386 elf_i386_fbsd elf_i386_obsd i386pe; do
>          if "$ld" -verbose 2>&1 | grep -q "^[[:space:]]*$emu[[:space:]]*$"; 
> then
>              ld_i386_emulation="$emu"
>              roms="optionrom"

My OpenBSD/x86-64's ld supports both "elf_i386" and "elf_i386_obsd" --
which should we be using in this case? With your change we'll
still prefer elf_i386 if the linker handles both.

Do you know what the difference between the two is?

thanks
-- PMM