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Subject: Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:26:15 -0700
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PS = Peter J. Stieber
PS>> Sorry in advance for the stupid questions, but...
PS>>
PS>> I downloaded the binutils source package, and
PS>> extracted the source. When
PS>> I ran
PS>>
PS>> ./configure --help
PS>>
PS>> I didn't see a --enable-debug option or anything
PS>> I though was equivalent. Am I missing something?

BD = Brian Dessent
BD> Normally, auto-tooled packages like binutils have a
BD> default value for CFLAGS that is typically "-g -O2"
BD> which means you get the debug information.  When
BD> creating binary packages for distribution the
BD> binaries are typically stripped later.

Thanks for the info Brian. I ran ./configure successfully in the 
extracted binutils-20050610-1 directory. When I ran make I ran into the 
following error:

gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -g -O2 -o 
ar.exe arparse.o arlex.o ar.o not-ranlib.o arsup.o rename.o binemul.o 
emul_vanilla.o bucomm.o version.o filemode.o  ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a 
../libiberty/libiberty.a ./../intl/libintl.a
arlex.o: In function `main':
/home/pete/binutils-20050610-1/binutils/arlex.c:1: multiple definition 
of `_main'
arparse.o:/home/pete/binutils-20050610-1/binutils/arparse.c:1: first 
defined here
ar.o: In function `main':
/home/pete/binutils-20050610-1/binutils/ar.c:337: multiple definition of 
`_main'
arparse.o:/home/pete/binutils-20050610-1/binutils/arparse.c:1: first 
defined here
ar.o: In function `mri_emul':
/home/pete/binutils-20050610-1/binutils/ar.c:143: undefined reference to 
`_yyparse'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [ar.exe] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/pete/binutils-20050610-1/binutils'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pete/binutils-20050610-1/binutils'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pete/binutils-20050610-1/binutils'

I'm not quite sure what the problem is. I have bison, flex and byacc 
loaded.

Sorry for being a naive pest,
Pete 



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