Re: Libc patch no longer applies

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:23:20 +0200, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic 
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) wrote:
> Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> skribis:
> 
> > ... and this did work!  That is, ``--build=i486-gnu --host=i486-gnu''
> > configuration with GCC 4.4, plus old binutils downgraded to Debian
> > package 2.20.1-2.
> >
> > And, on the other machine (with the 2010-04 trees), I built with recent
> > binutils as a crosscheck.  As expected, I got the same failure as we've
> > seen before.  The specific GCC 4.4 version doesn't appear to matter.

> Good to know, though it feels like a bit of black magic.  ;-)

I suspect that it's due to (some follow-up effects of?) the binutils
ctors/dtors change (see the last commit of my list in the other email),
that indeed was different with the old and recent binutils (compare the
configure.in check with old and recent ld).


Grüße,
 Thomas

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