Binutils objcopy bug (was Re: rebase segfault)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Jan 16 14:42:00 GMT 2013


On Jan 16 14:38, marco atzeri wrote:
> 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


Drat.

> >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

I forgot to mention, the --long-section-names enable option was
never default, apparently.  This would have to be fixed in cygport,
I guess.


Corinna

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