.gnu.build.attributes does not seem to be an ELF notes section

Ian Lance Taylor via binutils binutils@sourceware.org
Fri Dec 6 19:57:00 GMT 2019


On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 7:02 AM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Displaying notes found in: .gnu.build.attributes
> >   Owner                 Data size Description
> >   (NONE)               0x00000000 Unknown note type: (0x00000000)
>
> This is due to a bug that I introduced into strip which corrupted
> the notes in object files.  (If the object file was stripped).
> The bug has now been fixed, but in the time between creating the bug
> ans fixing the bug glibc was rebuilt.  And since glibc strips its
> crti.o and crtn.o object files, they ended up with corrupt notes.
> This then affected any program that was linked with these files.
>
> The glibc package should now be rebuilt, so if you update to the
> latest version and then relink your test program the problem should
> go away.
>
> Sorry about causing all of this fuss.

Ah, OK.  Thanks.  Works now.

Ian



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