30.11.2025 18:58, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas пишет:
> Nothing depends on binutils at the moment.  Indeed this port will need
> some tweaks on some architectures (backports from base probably).
> Sigh.  Maybe restricting this to amd64 and arm64 is more reasonable
> indeed...

Yes, hence my uncertainty as to what's the best approach here.

> I wonder if it would be less effort to provide a stripped down
> binutils port for bare x86_64, like arm-none-eabi/binutils.  Care to
> show your ipxe port and how it is currently using gld from binutils?

- "new net/ipxe" https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=176381141712670&w=2
- https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/tree/master/net/ipxe
  (since got updated and gained .iso images, rest is the same)

tl;dr:  Usual COMPILER* for gcc15 and AS=gas, etc. via MAKE_FLAGS.

>> Could someone please give this a try on anything other than:
>> arm64 amd64 i386 octeon?
> 
> Builds and packages on sparc64

Thanks!

> The list of "safe" architectures where we could enable gld without
> patches can probably be determined, but gotta head out now.
I'll try to cover more architectures.