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Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:11:52 +1000
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Subject:	Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] gmp-4.3.1-1 for cygwin-1.7
From:	David Billinghurst <dbcygwin AT gmail DOT com>
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
> Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> On 04/06/2009 21:22, David Billinghurst wrote:
>>> As the gmp and mpfr maintainer, can I do anything to fix this?
>>
>> Are you able to reproduce this? =A0I see you built these with gcc4 but
>> with a static libgcc; maybe adding -shared-libgcc would help?
>
> =A0This is the same problem we experienced with file-5.0.whatever-it-was =
just a
> little while ago. =A0There is an old bug in ld thst emits relocs that sho=
uldn't
> be there when compiling a DLL; these relocs then end up getting turned in=
to
> invalid addresses by rebase, which has no reason to believe there's anyth=
ing
> incorrect about them and probably nothing it could do even if it did.
>
> =A0If you build with fresh binutils from CVS head, the created DLL doesn'=
t have
> the problematic reloc. =A0We're rushing out a new binutils release just a=
s soon
> as PR977 can be resolved.

I'll try this tonight.  I have a recent CVS binutils on a machine at home.

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