On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:33:26AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 04:20:26PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > does anyone have experiences with the latest (e.g. 991025) binutils from
> > cygnus CVS ?
> >
> > I got it build for "mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu" and got a libgmp2
> > build (Which fails with binutils 2.8.1 -> segfault ld)
>
> Try the following:
>
> echo 'main(){}' > test.c
> gcc -o test test.c -lm -lieee
(root@repeat)/tmp/tt# echo 'main(){}' > test.c
(root@repeat)/tmp/tt# gcc -o test test.c -lm -lieee
collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault]
(root@repeat)/tmp/tt# ld -v
GNU ld version 2.8.1 (with BFD 2.8.1)
(root@repeat)/tmp/tt# export PATH=/data/devel/binutils-991025/bin/:$PATH
(root@repeat)/tmp/tt# gcc -o test test.c -lm -lieee
(root@repeat)/tmp/tt# ls -la
total 15
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 27 22:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 2048 Oct 27 22:07 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 12201 Oct 27 22:07 test
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 9 Oct 27 22:07 test.c
(root@repeat)/tmp/tt# ./test
(root@repeat)/tmp/tt# ld -v
GNU ld version 2.9.5 (with BFD 2.9.5)
> I hope you got a cronjob to remove core files ;-)
Nope - Dont seem to need it ...
> - Symbol versioning is broken in the CVS version. There is no fix yet for
> this problem.
> - The CVS gas version has a few problems with weak symbols, aliases and
> other special cases. These usually don't show up. Anyway, the patchkit
> on oss.sgi.com has all these fixes which haven't made their way into
> CVS.
>
> I've spent a tremendous amount of time into tracking down a large number of
> other bugs in binutils; I was able to rebuild entire RH 6.0 with that
> linker.
Flo
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