From: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
Message-Id: <199911071239.NAA02352@propus.lu.erisoft.se>
Subject: Re: binutils building problem
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:39:22 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <B0000107977@stargate.astr.lu.lv> from "pavenis@lanet.lv" at Nov 6, 99 05:28:20 pm
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Andris said:
> On 6 Nov 99, at 15:05, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> Just joke 
> 
> cd c:\djgpp         
> rm -vf @manifest/bnu281s.mft

Right! He-he!

> > Third problem: strange link message while building binutils 2.9.1:
> > Well, there's nothing stopping me now, I thought, let's go for
> > binutils 2.9.1. It seems to make correctly, but I get these strange
> > messages from the make process (the first two):
> > 
> > "gcc -g -o size size.o bucomm.o version.o filemode.o ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a
> > f:/djgpp/bin/ld.exe: size: warning: .text: line number overflow: 0x16f8b > 0xffff"
> > 
> > and 
> > 
> > "gcc -g -o objdump objdump.o prdbg.o rddbg.o debug.o stabs.o ieee.o rdcoff.o bucomm.o version.o filemode.o ../opcodes/.libs/libopcodes.a ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a
> > f:/djgpp/bin/ld.exe: objdump: warning: .text: line number overflow: 0x1b314 > 0xffff"
> > 
> > There are a total of 16 of such warnings. Are they be taken as
> > "comiplation failed" or are they harmless? What do they mean (if you
> > know)?
> > 
> 
> There will be problems with debug info (COFF limitations). Unless You 
> are going to debug binutils You can ignore them. Or specify 
> CFLAGS=-O2

Ok. There isn't anything that can make the debugging work? I don't
_think_ I'll need that but later on I'll surely will (Murphy's law...).

> One more question: did You apply patch to fix problem with local 
> labels I mentioned?

No, it's a pure tar-ball from a gnu mirror. Where can I get it? I
don't really need it - right now I don't care if the binaries are
bloated as long as they function.

> If You want, I can make available some of my builds of recent binutils 
> snapshots

Do they include ELF as a target? (Don't tell anyone but I'm examining
the possibility to move DJGPP to ELF.)


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							MartinS