On Mon, 24.11.14 20:00, Peter Wu (pe...@lekensteyn.nl) wrote: > The --gc-sections linker option triggers a bug in the gold linker[1] which > results in a bogus .eh_frame section making debugging harder: gdb backtraces > stop at a library built by systemd and libunwind simply segfaults.
To my knowledge libunwind is mostly obsolete, and libelfutils should be used instead. > Workaround by that bug by removing the option. The additional disk space > saved by this option is marginal anyway (less than 1%). To illustrate this, > see > this `du -ks` on the installed files: > > 83548 without-gc-sections/install > 25796 without-gc-sections/install-strip > 83432 with-gc-sections/install > 25752 with-gc-sections/install-strip > > [1]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17639 Are you sure you built the non-debug build? The reason we use gc-sections logic is that much of what we hae in src/shared/ is linked into every single binary we have even though most binaries need only very little of it. We rely on the linker to remove all the bits that are unnecessary hence. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
