undefined section `.gnu_debuglink' referenced in expression

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 03:58:42PM -0400, carlos wrote:
>I am trying to compile cygwin 1.5.25.15.
>I downloaded the source bz2 file (with cygwin setup).
>Extracted it and followed the instructions.
>
>The build goes a long way, until it stops with the following
>message in make.out:
>
>/oss/src/winsup/cygwin/cygwin.sc:143: 
>undefined section `.gnu_debuglink' referenced in expression

You need this patch:

RCS file: /cvs/uberbaum/winsup/cygwin/cygwin.sc,v
retrieving revision 1.22
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -d -u -r1.22 -r1.23
--- cygwin.sc   18 Apr 2007 13:11:34 -0000      1.22
+++ cygwin.sc   3 Jun 2008 02:22:36 -0000       1.23
@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@
   }
   __cygheap_end = ABSOLUTE(.);
   __cygheap_end1 = __cygheap_mid + SIZEOF(.cygheap);
-  __cygwin_debug_size = SIZEOF(.gnu_debuglink);
   /DISCARD/ :
   {
     *(.debug$S)

i.e., remove the "__cygwin_debug_size = SIZEOF(.gnu_debuglink);" line.

>The cygwin faq explain how to build a debug version of the cygwin dll.
>I would like to build a non-debug version of the cygwin dll.  Do i have
>anything special to do for that, or is it what we got when we build
>from a .bz2

I can't see any mention of the word "debug" in
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin

There is nothing special that needs to be done besides typing "make".

cgf

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