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[Gcl-devel] binutils induced libz dependency
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Camm Maguire |
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[Gcl-devel] binutils induced libz dependency |
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Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:18:23 -0500 |
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Greetings! It also appears that using newer binutils requires a
dynamic link dependency against libz. I suppose there is no way
around this. (?)
Take care,
Jerry James <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Camm Maguire <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> First, let me thank you again so much for your attention and
> contribution to GCL! I've downloaded your patches and are looking
> them over.
>
> Regarding the bfd patch, I cannot find a bfd version (on any debian
> release version at least) which requires this output_bfd setting. Can
> you fill me in on the problem you encountered?
>
> With a sufficiently new BFD library (more on that in a moment), failing to
> set the output_bfd field triggers
> a crash due to a null pointer dereference when attempting to read symbols. I
> took a look at upstream CVS.
> This page:
>
> http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/include/bfdlink.h?cvsroot=src
>
> indicates that the output_bfd field was added in version 1.71 of bfdlink.h,
> checked in on Feb 15, 2008.
> Version 2.19 of binutils has subsequently been released. I am on a Fedora 10
> machine, where binutils reports
> its version as 2.18.50.0.9. I presume that is some kind of development
> snapshot. In any case, /usr/include/
> bfdlink.h on my machine shows the output_bfd field, and failing to set it
> results in the aforementioned
> crash.
>
Yes, thanks, this is true and going in hopefully today.
Take care,
--
Camm Maguire address@hidden
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