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[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Greg Schafer wrote:
> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>
>   
>> 1) FSF binutils 2.17 don't recognize 64-bit libc.so.6 on Debian Lenny 
>> x86_64
>>     
>
> Yes, but why? This is the kind of debugging I'm talking about.
GNU hash. Found it by creating several dummy shared libraries of my own:

echo "foo(){}" | gcc -fPIC -x c -m64 -shared -o foo.so -
echo "foo(){}" | gcc -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -fPIC -x c -m64 -shared -o 
foo1.so -
echo "foo(){}" | gcc -Wl,--hash-style=sysv -fPIC -x c -m64 -shared -o 
foo2.so -

(Debian defaults to --hash-style=both).

Of these libraries, the new ld recognizes only foo2.so. Is this enough 
debugging?

Anyway, libc.so.6 is compiled with --hash-style=both, and we can't add 
support for it into binutils-2.17 - so we shouldn't link anything 
against the host libc with new ld. Thus, we need to cross-compile the 
first few packages. As I said, upgrading binutils also works, but it is 
a poor solution.

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Alexander E. Patrakov