[Bug binutils/15835] binutils can't deal with more than one SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX section (such as from Solaris or illumos link editor)

[richard at netbsd dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15835

Richard PALO <richard at netbsd dot org> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Richard PALO <richard at netbsd dot org> ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #5)
> Hi Rich,
> 
>   Please could you try out the uploaded patch and let me know if it works
> for you.  It should allow the binutils to read files with multiple
> symtab_shndx sections, but it will not make the linker produce them.
> 
> Cheers
>   Nick

following this issue, tried the patch on binutils 2.25.1, unfortunately:

...
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -DCP_ACP=1 -I. -I. -I./../include
-DHAVE_i386_elf32_sol2_vec -DHAVE_i386_coff_vec -DHAVE_x86_64_elf64_sol2_vec
-DHAVE_l1om_elf64_vec -DHAVE_k1om_elf64_vec -DHAVE_elf64_le_vec
-DHAVE_elf64_be_vec -DHAVE_elf32_le_vec -DHAVE_elf32_be_vec -DHAVE_plugin_vec
-DBINDIR=\"/opt/local/bin\" -I/opt/local/include -I/usr/include -W -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow -O2 -I/opt/local/include
-I/usr/include -MT elf.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/elf.Tpo -c elf.c -o elf.o
elf.c: In function 'assign_file_positions_for_non_load_sections':
elf.c:5075:9: warning: implicit declaration of function 'elf_symtab_shndx'
[-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
         || hdr == i_shdrpp[elf_symtab_shndx (abfd)]
         ^
elf.c: In function 'assign_file_positions_except_relocs':
elf.c:5333:13: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer
expressions [-Wsign-compare]
        || i == elf_symtab_shndx (abfd)
             ^
elf.c: In function 'swap_out_syms':
elf.c:6909:39: error: 'struct elf_obj_tdata' has no member named
'symtab_shndx_hdr'
   symtab_shndx_hdr = &elf_tdata (abfd)->symtab_shndx_hdr;
                                       ^

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