Re: perl-5.14.4

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Feb 16 16:42, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > Uh oh, the debug information is either broken (which is unlikely) or GDB
> > doesn't use it anymore due to the CRC mismatch.  Maybe the same CRC
> > mismatch breaks objcopy in cygport, given that both are based on the
> > same BFD code?
> 
> Maybe, but none of the tools ever complained about the CRC (I remember
> that GDB checks it though).  A CRC should be a fixable thing, though.
> 
> > For the time being, is it really required to rebase the DLLs for testing
> > before the debug information is split off?  If you could do the rebase
> > and test cycle after splitting off the debug info, the problem should be
> > neglectable.
> 
> For the moment I've changed the patch to EUMM to check if it's run from
> cygport and not rebase the just produced DLL in that case.  I only need
> to remember to package the module before testing instead of the other
> way around (and do a manual rebase before testing, but that isn't
> difficult).  So, I have a workaround.

FYI: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18025

So the binutils problem is fixed upstream, we're just waiting for GDB
to catch up.  Another collegue of mine will have a look as soon as time
permits.


Corinna

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