Martin Loschwitz wrote: > Hello fellow mips developers, > > i have made an attempt to fix bug #189031. But due to my lack of MIPS > machines, i was neither able to build nor to test the packages resulting > from my try. So, could somebody with a MIPS machine with Debian GNU/Linux > unstable on it please step forward and build/test my packages and report > afterwards whether they work or not? > > You can find the .diff.gz and the .dsc for my binutils package at > http://people.debian.org/~madkiss/binutils/
It looks like you've just applied my binutils patch which got reverted in the meanwhile and replaced by a simpler (and probably temporary) solution which also should help for problems like #189031. The reason for the reversion of my patch was that it breaks NewABI handling. This is probably not a problem for Debian, as Debian does not support NewABI anyway. However, I think keeping close to upstream's version is a good idea. I'm working on a better solution, but the relocation handling in MIPS binutils is a horrible mess, and it's very easy to break things in non-obvious ways, so don't hold your breath. Thiemo
