Re: libm compilation failing in -current

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <200911041319.54690.nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost>,
Nick Hudson  <nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>On Wednesday 04 November 2009 09:02:58 John Klos wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anyone help me to learn why libm is failing? I'm using a netbsd-5
>> system to compile -current, and it fails here:
>
>I builds for me on a NetBSD/i386 netbsd-5 machine.
>
>Do you have any local diffs? Did you try a clean build?
>
>> #     build  libm/libm.so.0.7
>> rm -f libm.so.0.7
>> /usr/current/src/../tools/bin/m68k--netbsdelf-gcc  -Wl,-nostdlib
>> -B/usr/current/src/../dest-amiga/usr/lib/
>> -B/usr/current/src/../dest-amiga/usr/lib/  -Wl,-x -shared
>> -Wl,-soname,libm.so.0 -Wl,--warn-shared-textrel -o libm.so.0.7
>> -Wl,--whole-archive libm_pic.a  -Wl,--no-whole-archive
>> -Wl,-rpath-link,/usr/current/src/../dest-amiga/lib:/usr/current/src/../dest
>>-amiga/usr/lib -R/lib  -L/usr/current/src/../dest-amiga/lib 
>> -Wl,--fatal-warnings -L/usr/current/src/../dest-amiga/usr/lib
>> /usr/current/tools/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k--netbsdelf/4.1.3/../../../../m68k--n
>>etbsdelf/bin/ld: warning: creating a DT_TEXTREL in a shared object.
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> *** [libm.so.0.7] Error code 1
>>
>> I'm not sure how this is supposed to be fixed, especially since the
>> "--warn-shared-textrel" seems to have been explicitely added. Any ideas?
>
>Look for the relocation against in the .text segment using readelf / objdump 
>against the library to find which bit of code it's in. Usually it's either 
>code that's compiled without -fPIC or non-PIC assembler.
>
>>
>> John Klos

I had added code that printed the symbol causing the error in the previous
binutils, why don't we port this code forward?

christos