From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22217 invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2013 22:30:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 22205 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jan 2013 22:30:31 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_BJ,TW_JC X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-yh0-f54.google.com (HELO mail-yh0-f54.google.com) (209.85.213.54) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:30:25 +0000 Received: by mail-yh0-f54.google.com with SMTP id 29so164825yhr.27 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:30:24 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.101.151.16 with SMTP id d16mr891817ano.50.1359498624395; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:30:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.147.52.23 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:30:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <51038B4F.1090903@gmail.com> References: <50F5D246.6010902@gmail.com> <50F653AB.80102@gmail.com> <20130116123509.GA16991@calimero.vinschen.de> <50F6AD63.8080106@gmail.com> <20130124030145.22fa143f@YAAKOV04> <20130124092746.GC8311@calimero.vinschen.de> <510103AF.3080305@gmail.com> <20130124100037.GB24121@calimero.vinschen.de> <51027B9E.3080104@gmail.com> <20130125150006.GC26731@calimero.vinschen.de> <5102A09A.7040506@gmail.com> <51038B4F.1090903@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Binutils objcopy bug (was Re: rebase segfault) From: Reini Urban To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Andrew Dunstan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2013-01/txt/msg00423.txt.bz2 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. > Could you make another check on 9.2.2 package before a new RFU > http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin-1.7/postgresql/ Sorry, holidays. Gold star please. -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple