From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4307 invoked by alias); 2 Jul 2002 18:20:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4295 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2002 18:20:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.83.203) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Jul 2002 18:20:52 -0000 Received: from porcupine.slc.redhat.com (vpn50-4.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.4]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA16011; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:20:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from porcupine (law@localhost) by porcupine.slc.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g62INaY26693; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:23:37 -0600 Message-Id: <200207021823.g62INaY26693@porcupine.slc.redhat.com> To: ross.alexander@uk.neceur.com cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com Reply-To: law@redhat.com Subject: Re: hppa64-hp-hpux11.00: HP ELF64 brokeness (incorrect .dynamic section) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jul 2002 16:56:59 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 11:20:00 -0000 From: Jeff Law X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00041.txt.bz2 In message , ross.alexan der@uk.neceur.com writes: > > I don't mind producing a patch to create a workaround (it is very straight > forward, for a change) or we could produce a program which 'corrects' the > defective libraries. However, because these are system libraries, a lot > of people may be unwilling to go near then. I suspect "fixing" the defective libraries won't be palatable to most folks. If we can engineer a clean workaround in bfd so that we can deal with the broken libraries in a sane way that would probably be best. jeff