The Linux binutils 2.13.90.0.18 is rleased

Jack Howarth howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu
Sun Jan 26 23:39:00 GMT 2003


   Unfortunately the new 2.13.90.0.18 release doesn't appear
to eliminate the stray TEXTREL symbols we are seeing on
debian ppc sid when we build either the debian glibc 2.3.1-10
package or current glibc cvs. In both cases we still see...

objdump --all-headers ./libc.so | grep TEXTREL
  TEXTREL     0x0

while...

objdump -T ./libc.so | grep TEXTREL

shows no TEXTREL symbols. Strangely, the current rawhide devtools
on entropy.crashing.org show no TEXTREL for either command for
the same glibc cvs build. The only major difference seems to be that
the gcc on entropy is...

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-linux/3.2.1/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=tree,gc,misc --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --host=ppc-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2.1 20030116 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2.1-3g_rh)

whereas debian has...

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/3.2.2/specs
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,proto,pascal,objc,ada --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.2 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-objc-gc powerpc-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2.2 20030124 (Debian prerelease)

                                        Jack



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