Re: target/5505: Doubts about a patch for OSF

["Richard B. Kreckel" <kreckel@ginac.de>]

The following reply was made to PR target/5505; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Richard B. Kreckel" <kreckel@ginac.de>
To: Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Cc: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: target/5505: Doubts about a patch for OSF
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 21:49:22 +0100 (CET)

 On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Richard B. Kreckel wrote:
 > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Rainer Orth wrote:
 > > Fine.  Instead of patching the whole machine, it should be sufficient to
 > > just drop a copy of the patched ld in
 > > $prefix/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-dec-osf5.1/3.0.4/ld.
 > 
 > The machine isn't operated by myself, unfortunately.  I have to wait for a
 > planned downtime tomorrow.  Then, the machine will be patched.
 > 
 > [...]
 > > I've re-bootstrapped GCC 3.0.4 20020129 with no regressions compared to
 > > 3.0.2 20010921, and this version still creates a working CLN 1.1.4 which
 > > passes make check.  I've even tried to drop the Tru64 UNIX V5.1 ld (before
 > > any patches) into the gcc tree as mentioned above and rebuilt CLN, which
 > > keeps working.  This may mean that ld isn't the culprit or the error only
 > > happens when linking libstdc++.
 > 
 > Thanks for this piece of information.  After our last email I had grown
 > suspicious, too, about ld being the only reason for this failure...
 
 Sigh.  Finally they have patched the machine up to ld from patch 358 --
 sorry it took so long.  Unfortunately, the problem does not go away.  I
 have bootstrapped gcc-3.0.3 and compiled CLN from scratch and it still
 complains about multiple symbols and crashes upon execution.
 
 So I have still no idea what is needed for gcc to function properly and,
 hence, cannot provide a proper documentation patch.  I'm afraid, this is
 as good as it gets, unless somebody can come up with an educated guess
 what to try next.
 
 Regards
     -richy.
 -- 
 Richard B. Kreckel
 <Richard.Kreckel@Uni-Mainz.DE>
 <http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~kreckel/>