Problems generating shared library for MIPS using binutils-2.13...

[H. J. Lu]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:38:25AM -0500, Steven J. Hill wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I'm doing something stupid here, so please help me out. I am trying
> to create a shared library with gcc passing parameters to the linker
> and it is not working.
> 
> I compiled all the object files with '-mips2' and then I attempt to
> create the shared library with:
> 
>     mipsel-linux-gcc -shared -Wl,-Amips2,-soname,libz.so.1 \
>        -o libz.so.1.1.4 adler32.o compress.o crc32.o gzio.o \
>        uncompr.o deflate.o trees.o zutil.o inflate.o infblock.o \
>        inftrees.o infcodes.o infutil.o inffast.o
> 
> The object files are all mips2, but the generated '.so' object
> is mips1?! What am I not understanding? I am using binutils-2.13,
> gcc-3.2 and uClibc-0.9.15. The use of uClibc is not the problem.
> 

That is a bug in the FSF binutils. I believe I fixed it in my Linux
binutils:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-10/msg00526.html

Please try my Linux binutils. 


H.J.