From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 31 7: 4: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 6E82137B401; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:04:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:04:06 -0800 From: Juli Mallett To: David O'Brien , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH: libc]Re: gnome on current Message-ID: <20021031070406.A57861@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021030234026.M22480-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> <3DC07094.F67F5C66@mindspring.com> <20021030180238.A7388@FreeBSD.org> <20021031083910.GA21482@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021031054542.A51595@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021031054542.A51595@FreeBSD.org>; from jmallett@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 05:45:43AM -0800 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: Juli Mallett [ Data: 2002-10-31 ] [ Subjecte: Re: [PATCH: libc]Re: gnome on current ] > * De: David O'Brien [ Data: 2002-10-31 ] > [ Subjecte: Re: [PATCH: libc]Re: gnome on current ] > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 06:02:38PM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote: > > > Considering that I built the same applications and ran the same applications > > > fine a while ago, and we've had a binutils upgrade, and things don't break > > > on other systems, I'm inclined to assume there are linker bugs afoot, and > > > all the other speculative stuff seems to be based on misunderstandings or > > > bad information. > > > > Huh? Your statement is rather speculative stuff. Other systems (say > > Linux) are using the same linker we are. Please speculate less. Please > > grab an older ld and try to prove your speculation. > > It's deductive. And wrong, too! Finally took a simple testcase, an old libexec/elf/ld, etc., and it still goes boom. On to checking the runtime linker, I suppose. -- Juli Mallett | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message