On 10/7/2015 17:57, JonY wrote:
> 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
>>

Hi Ken,

Are you able to reproduce a test case? Seems to require some complexity
to trigger it.