Re: objcopy --add-section doubt

[kartikeyan sadasivuni]

Hello Nick,

>
>
> Hmm, it should work with the newer version of binutils.
>
> Can you try using the latest binutils release (2.16) or, even better,
> the current binutils sources in the CVS repository ?
>
> If the problem still exists, please could you post a small example of
> how to reproduce the problem so that we can investigate further ?

 I tried with CVS version
These are the steps I followed.

system information

>uname -a
Linux lh 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 #1 Thu Jun 2 22:55:56 EDT 2005 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux

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cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/src login
 cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/src co binutils
./configure
./make
./make install

No problems in installation
ld -v output
------------------
GNU ld version 2.16.91 20060128

objcopy -V output
-----------------
GNU objcopy 2.16.91 20060128
Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.


So the installation seems to be OK

Now reproducing the Bug(possibly as it is working under RH9)
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copy the four attached files to  /tmp directory
now do
>sh a.sh

attachment description
filename      desc
-------------    ----------------
a                text file to be embedded in .skdata section of exectuable
a.c              C source file
a.lds            LD Script
a.sh             Script to compile and produce the binary


Working Under RH9 (Tested before posting)
Not working under FC4
Also Not working under bintutils from sourceware CVS version 2.16

error
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objcopy: can't create section `.skdata': File in wrong format

If you need any more information please contact me.

--
S.Kartikeyan

a
Description: Binary data

a.c
Description: Text Data

a.lds
Description: Binary data

a.sh
Description: Bourne shell script