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Re: Branching for 2.12


On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:59:30AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:56:52AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:54:19AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 02:03:57AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >> >Nothing big's broken lately.  And most of what I was waiting for has gone
> >> >in.  So, while there are a few things left that I want fixed before release
> >> >(most notably to me is the problem I posted with stdbool.h conflicting with
> >> >bfd.h; I'll try to finish the patch tomorrow), I think we're mostly there.
> >> 
> >> Actually, I hate to do this, but I haven't been able to build a working
> >> cross-build environment for Windows for a couple of weeks.  ld is SEGVing.
> >> 
> >> I'd hoped that DJ Delorie's recent change might solve the problem but it
> >> doesn't.  ld is dying reading stabs information.
> >> 
> >> I don't have a lot of time to track this down but if a working Windows
> >> version of binutils is a requirement for a new release, then I think
> >> we've got a problem.
> >
> >Blargh.
> >
> >Windows host or target?  And cygwin rather than mingw2 I assume?  I'll
> >look at it if you can give me a testcase and a config.
> 
> Windows target (i686-pc-cygwin), linux host.  Don't know about mingw.
> If you build a cross compiler and try to link gdb, ld will fail, or
> at least it does for me.

Could you please try to reproduce this, and give me more exact
instructions on how to make it bomb?

drow@nevyn:/opt/src/cygwin/obj-nat% file gdb/gdb.exe 
gdb/gdb.exe: MS Windows PE Intel 80386 console executable not relocatable

GCC head, binutils/gdb head, -g -O2.  Several megs worth of .stab
section.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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