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Date:      Sun, 25 Jan 1998 17:20:39 -0800
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gdb which supports elf?
Message-ID:  <199801260120.RAA16719@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <199801182249.OAA20045@rah.star-gate.com>
References:  <199801182249.OAA20045@rah.star-gate.com>

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In article <199801182249.OAA20045@rah.star-gate.com>,
Amancio Hasty  <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote:
> 
> Howdy, 
> I dowloaded John's elfkit and it seems to work rather nicely.
> Made a minor mod to rtld.c, got rid of this:
> 
>    assert(!obj_rtld.textrel); 
> 
> When loading a shared binary the assert was being triggered
> and from the looks of it obj_rtld.textrel was set to 1 meaning
> that the text region is relocatable.

You shouldn't delete the assert.  It means something is wrong with
the way you built the dynamic linker or with the tools you used to
build it.  There should _not_ be any text relocations in the
dynamic linker.
--
   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth



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