Hi Marc!

Is this fix now in cvs tree xc module? I.e. can I update my working dir and
try to build?

Thanks,
Axel

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Marc Aurele La France wrote:

> On Tue, 14 May 2002, David Dawes wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:46:49PM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> > >On Mon, 13 May 2002, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
> > >> New versions of the gcc compiler have an optimization called
> > >> "string merging" which is enabled by default.  The XFree86 module
> > >> loader chokes on the ELF sections that this optimization adds to
> > >> the ELF objects.
> 
> > >> To work around this XFree86 module loader limitation, you need
> > >> to pass -fno-merge-constants to the linker when modules are
> > >> being built. This can be done from host.def with:
> 
> > >> ModuleLdFlags -fno-merge-constants
> 
> > >That should have a "#define " in front of it.
> 
> > >> This was automatically detected in later 4.1.0 CVS, and also in
> > >> 4.2.0 CVS however it looks like someone removed the automatic
> > >> checks in head CVS.
> 
> > >No, it wasn't removed.  But, it's possible that
> 
> > It looks like the relevant code in got isolated recently.  I'll
> > commit a fix.
> 
> The committed fix makes sense and does explain the reported behaviour.
> Thanks.
> 
> Marc.
> 
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