Re: Branching for 2.12

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:15:25PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:59:30AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:56:52AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>> >On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:54:19AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 02:03:57AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>> >> >Nothing big's broken lately.  And most of what I was waiting for has gone
>> >> >in.  So, while there are a few things left that I want fixed before release
>> >> >(most notably to me is the problem I posted with stdbool.h conflicting with
>> >> >bfd.h; I'll try to finish the patch tomorrow), I think we're mostly there.
>> >> 
>> >> Actually, I hate to do this, but I haven't been able to build a working
>> >> cross-build environment for Windows for a couple of weeks.  ld is SEGVing.
>> >> 
>> >> I'd hoped that DJ Delorie's recent change might solve the problem but it
>> >> doesn't.  ld is dying reading stabs information.
>> >> 
>> >> I don't have a lot of time to track this down but if a working Windows
>> >> version of binutils is a requirement for a new release, then I think
>> >> we've got a problem.
>> >
>> >Blargh.
>> >
>> >Windows host or target?  And cygwin rather than mingw2 I assume?  I'll
>> >look at it if you can give me a testcase and a config.
>> 
>> Windows target (i686-pc-cygwin), linux host.  Don't know about mingw.
>> If you build a cross compiler and try to link gdb, ld will fail, or
>> at least it does for me.
>
>Could you please try to reproduce this, and give me more exact
>instructions on how to make it bomb?

Um.  Those were adequate instructions for making it bomb "for me".

I'll rebuild a current CVS and see if it is fixed now.

cgf