elf2e32 to emit .extern instead of .comm directives for --asm=gas, --dump=a. Interim solution for bugs 3117 and 2979
===============================================================Things that need done for this package (in no particular order)===============================================================2010-05-13, mikek@symbian.org1. Test the built tools. No testing has been done whatsoever.2. Build the package on platforms not listed here, and add them to the list: Windows XP 32bit Ubuntu 9.04,10.4 32/64bit4. Find all the perl scripts that are exported and ensure they run on Linux.5. Differentiate the exports so that .bat files are only exported by Windows builds and .sh files are only exported by *nix builds6. On Windows, the imgcheck target needs to link against libwsock32.a. This library exist in the gcc mingw lib directory in the PDT, but because the library is specified with the STATICLIBRARY keyword, the linker looks for it in the epoc32\release\tools2\{deb|rel} directory and doesn't find it. It is not included in the upstream package, so it cannot be exported there. This bug has been worked around as one of the things done by the fix_epoc32_win.pl script - it just copies libwsock32.a from the PDT to the tools2 release deb|rel directories, but a real solution should be found. Preferably, for all targets on Windows the gcc mingw libraries should be in the linker's search path.7. Add a toplevel GNU makefile to the package and scripting to support it which can generate a GNU tarball containing a "normalised Linux" simplification of the package. The normalised Linux spin will strip out everything from the package contents and build that is only required for Windows or would normally be provided by package prerequisities in a Linux setting, e.g. it will not contain Windows binaries or build its own versions of make, bash, cpp, python. A normalised Linux spin would be the right basis on which to build .deb or .rpm packaging.