Jerry James <loganje...@gmail.com> writes: | On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Camm Maguire <[[c...@maguirefamily.org]]> | wrote: | | Greetings! | First, let me thank you again so much for your attention and | contribution to GCL! I've downloaded your patches and are looking | them over. | Regarding the bfd patch, I cannot find a bfd version (on any debian | release version at least) which requires this output_bfd | setting. Can you fill me in on the problem you encountered? | | | With a sufficiently new BFD library (more on that in a moment), failing to set | the output_bfd field triggers a crash due to a null pointer dereference when | attempting to read symbols. I took a look at upstream CVS. This page: | | [[http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/include/bfdlink.h?cvsroot=src]] | indicates that the output_bfd field was added in version 1.71 of bfdlink.h, | checked in on Feb 15, 2008. Version 2.19 of binutils has subsequently been | released. I am on a Fedora 10 machine, where binutils reports its version as | 2.18.50.0.9. I presume that is some kind of development snapshot. In any | case, /usr/include/bfdlink.h on my machine shows the output_bfd field, and | failing to set it results in the aforementioned crash.
Just as a data point: while I can build GCL (2.6.8pre) on openSUSE-10.2, I cannot build it on any later versione, e.g. openSUSE-11.x, which all comes with newer versions of binutils. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
