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> Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:14:43 +0200
> From: Andreas Tobler <andreast-list@fgznet.ch>
> 
> But now I hunt for this:
> with my built gdb 'show endian' shows this:
> 
> (gdb) show endian
> The target is assumed to be big endian
> 
> On my linuxppc machine I see this:
> 
> (gdb) show endian
> The target endianness is set automatically (currently big endian)
> 
> The reason I'm not satisfied is, that inside the testsuite it looks 
> exactly for the automatically set endianness string. (altivec tests).
> 
> I still wonder what my port lacks to spit out the same message as 
> powerpc linux does?

I get the same message on OpenBSD that you're seeing on Linux.  And I
don't think I do something special on OpenBSD to get that behaviour.
The problem may very well lie in how you've configured BFD.