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Hi Nick, thank you much for your response... --- Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi James, > > > I posted the enclosed message yesterday and > haven't received response from anyone as yet. > > Please be patient. The people who answer questions > on this list are all volunteers who have other, > important, work to do as well. > Sorry didn't mean to be impatient. Just trying to find out if this is the right list. > > > If this is not the appropriate group then can > anyone recommend one? > > This is the correct list. > > > I am currently using objcopy version 2.13.90 > > In general it is always a good idea to make sure > that you are using the latest release before > reporting problems. In the case of binutils > this is 2.14 (or if you prefer using HJ's versions: > 2.14.90.0.6). > Tried to compile the latest 2.14 version and receiving the following message: % ./configure --prefix=mydir creating cache ./config.cache checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin6.8 checking target system type... powerpc-apple-darwin6.8 checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin6.8 *** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories: bfd binutils ld gas opcodes gprof (Any other directories should still work fine.) <snip> Then executing "make" does not build objcopy. > > >> I am trying to rename a symbol in an object file > called > >> "error_msg.o" and following is its information: > >> > >> % objdump -t error_msg.o > >> > >> error_msg.o: file format mach-o-be > >> 00000000000000fc g *UND* _error_message > > >> The error messages that I receive are as follows: > >> > >> % objcopy --redefine-sym > >> _error_message=_au_error_message error_msg.o > >> objcopy: error_msg.o: Invalid operation > > >> Any suggestions on how to resolve this problem? > > It may well be a bug in the bfd library. if you can > provide a test case (ie the error_msg.o file) we can > try to investigate. > I have attached the error_msg.o file. > > For what it is worth this kind of renaming should be > possible. It certainly does work for a simple test > case using the i686-pc-linux-gnu target and the > current binutils sources from the CVS repository. > > Cheers > Nick > Thanks for any help! James __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
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