Re: binutils-2.14: gmake check fails on Solaris9.

[Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs at dmu dot ac dot uk>]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Nick Clifton wrote:

> Hi Hugh,
>
> My current failure case is way too
> > big: libpng-1.2.5 builds OK with 2.12, but graphviz-1.10 built with
> > 2.12, and 2.14 (2-14 --prefix'ed into /scratch/local) seg faults
> > with signal 11, so I'm having a hard time producing anything very
> > diagnostic and concise.
>
> Have you tried the mainline binutils sources from the CVS repository
> or the new 2.15 branch ?  It is quite possible that the bug has been
> fixed in these sources.

No, I'll try that next I think, but it is hard to know where the
paint is still wet.

Further development: rebuilding zlib-1.2.1,
libpng-1.2.5, and graphvis-1.10 with binutils-2.14 seg faults when
ld is invoked in the dotneato dir.
I've used --with-ld=/scratch/local/bin/ld, --with-gnu-ld and pointed
LD_LIBRARY_PATH at
/scratch/local/lib:/usr/local/lib:/opt/SUNWspro/lib....
but I have not done --with-as= yet, because it is the linker rather
than the assembler that fails.

This, just for precision, is on a

Release: 5.9
Kernel architecture: sun4u
Application architecture: sparc
Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems
Kernel version: SunOS 5.9 Generic 112233-06 March 2003

system, with

gcc (GCC) 3.3.2
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

GNU Make 3.80
Copyright (C) 2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

but with those two tools not rebuilt with 2.14

Can I filter the core file through something to cough up more useful
diagnostics?  At the moment I seem to have too many variables to
make intelligent guesses as to what might work.

>
> Cheers
>         Nick
>
>
        Thank you
        Hugh
>