Problem with nm in binutils-2.25-2 on x86

JonY 10walls@gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 09:57:00 GMT 2015


On 10/6/2015 21:12, Ken Brown wrote:
> This is a followup to
> https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-10/msg00059.html .
> 
> I tried to build icu using gcc-5 and binutils-2.25-2 on x86.  The build
> appeared to hang when cygport was stripping executables.  I traced the
> problem to a call to 'nm -l' in src_postinst.cygpart.  This produced
> errors like the following when called on some of the DLLs:
> 
> $ nm -l cygicui18n56.dll
> 6270c458 b .bssBFD: Dwarf Error: Could not find abbrev number 1151.
> 6270c594 b .bssBFD: Dwarf Error: Could not find abbrev number 1151.
> 6270c0cc b .bssBFD: Dwarf Error: Could not find abbrev number 1151.
> ...
> 
> This particular DLL can be found at
> 
>   http://sanibeltranquility.com/cygwin/cygicui18n56.dll.xz
> 
> nm -l from binutils-2.25-1 has no problem on this DLL.  The behavior is
> the same whether the DLL is built using binutils-2.25-1 or 2.25-2, so
> this appears to just be a bug in nm.  [The DLL I posted at the above URL
> was buil with binutils-2.25-1.]
> 
> Ken

CC Kai.



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