[oe] EABI pain and frustration!

[pspreadborough at comcast.net]

----- "Phil Blundell" <philb at gnu.org> wrote: 
> On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 14:43 -0600, Travis Stratman wrote: 
> > >From my understanding of this issue he has an OABI rootfs and is trying 
> > to run an EABI executable on top of it. This just doesn't work period 
> > AFAIK; the kernel can boot either OABI or EABI with the compatibility 
> > flags config'd in, but all of the binaries on the filesystem must match. 
> 
> I don't think this is strictly true: there shouldn't be any particular 
> reason why OABI and EABI binaries couldn't coexist on the same 
> filesystem. Of course, you would need to have both sets of runtimes 
> installed (ld.so and libc at a mininum, plus whatever other libraries 
> are needed by your apps) so this would not be completely trivial to 
> arrange, but I can't think of anything that would impose a hard 
> requirement for everything on the system to be using the same ABI. 

I used a statically linked executable in order to avoid having to install 
the support binaries. 

Pete