Weird error cross-compiling glibc with binutils 2.22 or head

[Andreas Schwab]

david.hagood@gmail.com writes:

>           sed > Build/arm-linux-gnueabi/glibc_main/shlib.ldsT \
>               -e '/^=========/,/^=========/!d;/^=========/d' \
>                -e 's/^.*\.gnu\.hash[         ]*:.*$/  .note.ABI-tag : {
> *(.note.ABI-tag)
> } &/' -e '/^[         ]*\.hash[         ]*:.*$/{h;d;}' -e
> '/DATA_SEGMENT_ALIGN/{H;g}'  \
>               -e 's/^.*\*(\.dynbss).*$/& \
>                  PROVIDE(__start___libc_freeres_ptrs = .); \
>                  *(__libc_freeres_ptrs) \
>                  PROVIDE(__stop___libc_freeres_ptrs = .);/'\
>               -e 's@^.*\*(\.jcr).*$@& \
>                  PROVIDE(__start__es : {subfreeres = .);\

Here ----------------^

>                  __libc_subfreeres : { *(__libc_subfreeres) }\
>                  PROVIDE(__stop___libc_subfreeres = .);\
>                  PROVIDE(__start___libc_atexit = .);\
>                  __libc_atexit : { *(__libc_atexit) }\
>                  PROVIDE(__stop___libc_atexit = .);\
>                  PROVIDE(__start___libc_thread_subfreeres = .);\
>                  __libc_thread_subfreeres : { *(__libc_thread_subfreeres) }\
>                  PROVIDE(__stop___libc_thread_subfreeres = .);\
>                  /DISCARD/ : { *(.gnu.glibc-stub.*) }@'
> mv -f Build/arm-linux-gnueabi/glibc_main/shlib.ldsT
> Build/arm-linux-gnueabi/glibc_main/shlib.lds
> <snip a buch of items>
> Build/arm-linux-gnueabi/glibc_main/elf/ld.so -lgcc
> ld:Build/arm-linux-gnueabi/glibc_main/shlib.lds:149: syntax error
>
> The error is:
>          PROVIDE(__start__es : {subfreeres = .);
> (note the unbalanced { and ))
>
> I have no idea where that is coming from:

See above.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."