binutils-2.17: --cref broken? Extra warnings and corrupted data

[Paul R. Nash]

On 7/18/06, Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 08:44:31PM -0700, Paul R. Nash wrote:
> > ../.././binutils-2.17/ld/ldcref.c: In function `handle_asneeded_cref':
> > ../.././binutils-2.17/ld/ldcref.c:242: error: structure has no member
> > named `count'
> > ../.././binutils-2.17/ld/ldcref.c:283: error: structure has no member
> > named `count'
> > make[4]: *** [ldcref.o] Error 1
> >
> > Indeed, there is no count in my version of struct
> > bfd_hash_table...actually there's no other usage of ".count" anywhere
> > in ld at least. Is that mainline only?
>
> Yes, you need a slightly different patch for 2.17.  Just delete all
> occurrences of old_count in the patch you have, or pull the 2.17 version
> from CVS binutils-2_17-branch.

Oh -- duh, I didn't realize the patch was in CVS already (not on that list)!

Okay, I applied this and rebuilt my toolchain, and everything is
working much better!

Thanks all...

-PN