Re: Binutils objcopy bug (was Re: rebase segfault)

[Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>]

On 01/29/2013 05:30 PM, Reini Urban wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 1:52 AM, marco atzeri  wrote:
>> On 1/26/2013 7:32 AM, Reini Urban wrote:
>>>> rebase is not to blame. I agree ;-)
>>>> Someone else is incorrectly managing the reloc table,
>>>> and also objcopy seems innocent ...
>>>>
>>>> Postgresql dll's are built in this way:
>>>
>>> My strong guess is dllwrap.
>>> No other packages uses the ancient dllwrap anymore.
>>> I tried to get rid of it, but got stuck somewhere else.
>>>
>> Hi Reini,
>> I agree dllwrap seems the coolprit, and "gcc -shared"
>> seems a better alternative, at least on a single test with this dll.
>>
>> I looked on the postgresql makefiles and it is a big mess to
>> replace dllwrap; upstream is crazy, they crippled configure
>> forcing a specific version and refusing to use Automake.
>>
>> Autoconf+Automake will be a much cleaner approach, and will
>> allow to avoid at all the platform checks.
> Yes, I had the same impression but it is unfortunately not realistic.
> I worked against dllwrap removal but got stuck somewhere.
> When I find my old patches I'll hand it over to you. Just came back
> from holidays.
>
>


I will be very happy to work with you to remove the use of dllwrap etc. 
for cygwin. Since I'm a Postgres committer (and the only one interested 
in Cygwin at all) I'm in a good position to do this. I believe the 
Postgres project had problems in the past with automake and made a 
decision long ago not to use it, so we're not going down that route. 
However, that surely need not stop us from getting this working.

cheers

andrew




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