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Re: [Fwd: Memory violation in init on ARM Linux. in glibc mainline...]


On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:59:28PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 17:08, Scott Bambrough wrote:
> > The BFD patches would be be a great help.  BTW, is there a version of
> > binutils that is known to work?
> 
> Okay, I'll dig them out later this evening.  I don't know of any version
> of binutils that handles this stuff correctly, though you may be able to
> get a working build by using an older version that doesn't even attempt
> to support combreloc.  (Or, perhaps easier, by hacking the glibc
> configure script to not use it.)
> 
> I think I was also running into another bug that was causing the program
> headers to get damaged somehow.  This seemed unrelated to the first
> problem, though I don't remember the details offhand.
> 
> Either or both of these issues might be fixed already in the trunk; I
> think Daniel Jacobowitz had some patches for the ARM backend a couple of
> weeks ago.  If I get time over the next few days I will try to find out
> what the current status is.

I'd like to see your patches, then.  I believe it works on the trunk
and branch now; but it's been a while since I was able to get an ARM
system to actually boot into userland with my current tools, so I'm not
quite sure.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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