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From: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Hi,

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> binutils/bfd recently removed a.out and COFF support for sparc [1].
> 
> Unfortunately, this means that we are no longer able to built GRUB or 
> SILO for sparc/sparc64 which need to be built as a.out binaries as the 
> Open Boot Firmware requires them to be in a.out format [2].

Link as ELF and use elftoaout to convert to a.out.


Ciao,
Michael.