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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:13:07 -0400
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Subject: Re: Another script for building binutils
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> Here is another script for configuring and building binutils I'm using.
> Last test were done with binutils snapshots (990727 appears to be 
> bad: broken debug info, so I'll perhaps return to 990710 which I 
> used for some time).

If you haven't already, please report this problem to binutils AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com 
so the binutils folks can look into it. Since it's recent, they should be able to 
track it down.


> --- binutils-2.9.1/bfd/coff-i386.c.orig	Fri May  1 15:48:04 1998
> +++ binutils-2.9.1/bfd/coff-i386.c	Thu Mar  4 20:33:02 1999
> @@ -48,7 +48,9 @@
>  #define COFF_DEFAULT_SECTION_ALIGNMENT_POWER (2)
>  /* The page size is a guess based on ELF.  */
> 
> +#ifndef COFF_GO32_EXE
>  #define COFF_PAGE_SIZE 0x1000
> +#endif
> 
>  /* For some reason when using i386 COFF the value stored in the .text
>     section for a reference to a common symbol is the value itself plus
> 

And this too please. I don't know if it's right or not, but I do notice it prevents 
.stabs sections from being marked as SEC_DEBUGGING.


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Mark Elbrecht, snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com
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