Greetings! It also appears that using newer binutils requires a dynamic link dependency against libz. I suppose there is no way around this. (?)
Take care, 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. > Yes, thanks, this is true and going in hopefully today. Take care, -- Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
