From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Sherrill To: Ian Lance Taylor Cc: gas2@cygnus.com Subject: Re: more on powerpc-rtems ar failure Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:01:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <199804171544.LAA03190@subrogation.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1998/msg00152.html On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Is this just that the code to check for "wrong format" was missing? So > now it prints a better message? > > With the patch I sent, ar works correctly when configured with > --enable-targets=all. It's still possible to have ambiguity problems > with --enable-targets=all, but this one wasn't an ambiguity problem. > It was a bug. So powerpc-rtems should complete a build now with --enable-targets=all? I am switching away from doing this based on your comments. > Were you able to reproduce Eric Norum's Srecord split problem? Did you > get all the information you wanted? > > Yes, I was able to reproduce it. The bug appears to have been there > for a long time. I haven't looked into fixing it yet. The patch > would be to calculate the correct section size in setup_sections > rather than in copy_sections. Great. We were not as concerned with when it was fixed as much as if the report was reproducible and good enough to get fixed sometime. Eric found a work-around. --joel