ld for ia64-hp-openvms target

[Tristan Gingold]

> On 23 Apr 2015, at 15:15, David SAUVAGE - AdaLabs Ltd <david.sauvage@adalabs.com> wrote:
> 
> On 03/18/2015 12:45 PM, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>>> ia64-hp-openvms-ld: cannot find -limagelib
>>> >ia64-hp-openvms-ld: cannot find -lstarlet
>>> >ia64-hp-openvms-ld: cannot find -lsys$public_vectors
>> You have to import these libraries from a VMS system.
>> 
> 
> 
> I imported the 3 of them from VMS by using copy and zip them before transfer to Unix.
> 
> While the cross ld _seems_ to correctly process imagelib.exe and starlet.exe, a segfault is raised while processing sys$public_vectors.exe [1]
> 
> Did you took sys$public_vectors.exe 'as it is' from VMS or did you rework/transform/.../ it ?

No, I didn’t transform it.

> [1]
> binutils-2.23.1/elf64-ia64-vms.c
> A.
> in function elf64_vms_link_add_object_symbols htab->dynobj has NULL value in the call to elf64_ia64_create_dynamic_sections
> B.
> Moreover in function elf64_ia64_create_dynamic_sections elf_hash_table (info)->dynobj also has NULL value
> 
> Any idea why both htab->dynobj and elf_hash_table (info)->dynobj has NULL value ?

Not out of mind.  Needs a little bit of investigation :-(