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Re: [Michael Deutschmann <michael@talamasca.wkpowerlink.com>]


> 
> At 17:50 27.09.99 , Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Michael reported a problem with a broken ld.so in glibc 2.1.2.  He
> >finally nailed this down to LDFLAGS=-s in his environment.  I can
> >reproduce the problem with binutils 2.9.1.0.25 (he used 2.9.5.0.13).
> >
> >Is this a binutils bug or is there another reason not to use `-s' for
> >linking?
> 
> Hmm, there were (are?) some mystery problems (corrupted binaries) with 
> strip and/or LDFLAGS=-s on Linux/PPC as well. That's why we still ship an 
> unstripped glibc. It tends to happen especially with large binaries, but we 
> never found why, cause nobody could reproduce it reliably. I _thought_ it 
> was fixed in binutils-2.9.[45].*, but I wasn't brave enough yet to try it 
> on the whole distribution...
> 
> 

I will make a new binutils shortly to fix it. BTW, it is a very old
bug. It has been in there for a longf time.


-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)

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