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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Ronald Landheer-Cieslak" <ronald AT landheer DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Segmentation fault in ld
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:00:07 +0100
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Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I just discovered a bug in the current ld:
> 
> To repeat, just make sure there is no .libs in the current directory and
> there is a minimal stub.cpp with at least one function. Run make with the
> following makefile:
> 
> == BEGIN Makefile ==
> all : stub.dll
> 
> .cpp.o :
>         g++ -shared -Wall -Werror -g -c -o $@ $<
> 
> stub.dll : stub.o
>         g++ -Wall -Werror -g -o $@ $^ \
>         -Wl,--out-implib,.libs/$@.a \
>         -Wl,--output-def,.libs/$@-def \
>         -Wl,--export-all-symbols \
> === END Makefile ===
> 
> ld will segfault trying to open .libs/stub.dll-def
> 
> The Makefile is slightly crappy, of course, but ld shouldn't segfault in
> any case, IMHO.

True, but even if ld didn't segfault, your example is still broken:

.def files MUST end in ".def". Otherwise ld will not treat them as such.

> If this is in no way related to Cygwin, I'll send the same thing to the
> Binutils list.
> 
> HTH
> 
> rlc

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