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I'm not sure if my first post was done correctly, so I am reposting.


I am running Slackware Linux 3.0 ELF and have successfully compiled
gcc 2.7.2/g77-0.5.17 native compiler(ELF).  However, I some OpenGL
libraries that I occasionally need to link to that are in a.out
format.  I have tried to build a cross compiler to do this.  I use
the configure command:

/configure --prefix=/usr --target=i486-linuxaout --build=i586-linux

The compile appears to go fine until very near the end, when I get
the message:

  -nostartfiles -nostdlib `./xgcc -B./ --print-libgcc-file-name`
/usr/i486-linuxaout/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on
output
make: *** [libgcc1-test] Error 1

I supplied an empty libgcc1.a, and that appeared to work OK.

I installed all the a.out support stuff and compiler that came
with slackware, which includes all the stuff in /usr/i486-linuxaout.

The ld in the i486-linuxaout/bin directory is linked to ../../bin/ld.
and the output of the objdump -i is:

BFD header file version cygnus/linux-2.5.2l.11
elf32-i386
 (header little endian, data little endian)
  i386
a.out-i386-linux
 (header little endian, data little endian)
  i386
coff-i386
 (header little endian, data little endian)
  i386
..etc

So I don't think the loader is the problem.  Any tips as to how I
should proceed?

My kernel version is 1.3.59.

Bart Hoekstra
Blackhawk Geosciences
bart@blackhawkgeo.com