Re: more on powerpc-rtems ar failure

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

>    Is this just that the code to check for "wrong format" was missing?  So
>    now it prints a better message?
> 
> With the patch I sent, ar works correctly when configured with
> --enable-targets=all.  It's still possible to have ambiguity problems
> with --enable-targets=all, but this one wasn't an ambiguity problem.
> It was a bug.

So powerpc-rtems should complete a build now with --enable-targets=all?

I am switching away from doing this based on your comments.

>    Were you able to reproduce Eric Norum's Srecord split problem?  Did you
>    get all the information you wanted?
> 
> Yes, I was able to reproduce it.  The bug appears to have been there
> for a long time.  I haven't looked into fixing it yet.  The patch
> would be to calculate the correct section size in setup_sections
> rather than in copy_sections.

Great.  We were not as concerned with when it was fixed as much as if the
report was reproducible and good enough to get fixed sometime.  Eric found
a work-around.

--joel