[ANNOUNCEMENT] gmp-4.3.1-1 for cygwin-1.7

[David Billinghurst]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
> Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> On 04/06/2009 21:22, David Billinghurst wrote:
>>> As the gmp and mpfr maintainer, can I do anything to fix this?
>>
>> Are you able to reproduce this?  I see you built these with gcc4 but
>> with a static libgcc; maybe adding -shared-libgcc would help?
>
>  This is the same problem we experienced with file-5.0.whatever-it-was just a
> little while ago.  There is an old bug in ld thst emits relocs that shouldn't
> be there when compiling a DLL; these relocs then end up getting turned into
> invalid addresses by rebase, which has no reason to believe there's anything
> incorrect about them and probably nothing it could do even if it did.
>
>  If you build with fresh binutils from CVS head, the created DLL doesn't have
> the problematic reloc.  We're rushing out a new binutils release just as soon
> as PR977 can be resolved.

I'll try this tonight.  I have a recent CVS binutils on a machine at home.

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