Binutils objcopy bug (was Re: rebase segfault)

[marco atzeri]

On 1/16/2013 1:35 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 16 08:15, marco atzeri wrote:
>> On 1/15/2013 11:03 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
>>> On 1/15/2013 12:24 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> On Jan 15 11:36, marco atzeri wrote:
>>>>> On 1/15/2013 11:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>
> This is a serious bug in objcopy in the current binutils.  Given that
> cygport creates the debug info automatically, we might end up with
> spuriously broken DLLs in the distro.

we already have some :

/usr/bin/cygcrypto-1.0.0.dll
   8 .gnu_deb      0000001c  67542000  67542000  0017ac00  2**2

/usr/bin/cyglsa.dll
   6 .gnu_deb      00000014  10007000  10007000  00001400  2**2

/usr/bin/cygssl-1.0.0.dll
   8 .gnu_deb      0000001c  58fcf000  58fcf000  00059a00  2**2

>
> I checked with objcopy from the older binutils 2.51.53-2, and the
> problem did not show up.  I also built the latest binutils release
> 2.23.1 and the problem also doesn't show, so we probably can get away
> with just a black eye by updating binutils to 2.23.1.  Chris?
>
>
> Corinna
>

Marco


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