X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_SG,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Markus Moeller" Subject: Re: Failed linking gettext-0.18 Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 14:10:22 +0100 Lines: 92 Message-ID: References: <4C59DEC5 DOT 70005 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> <4C5C8247 DOT 3000800 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <4C5C8247.3000800@cwilson.fastmail.fm> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com "Charles Wilson" wrote in message news:4C5C8247 DOT 3000800 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm... > On 8/6/2010 4:20 AM, Markus Moeller wrote: >> Can you tell me what the error means and what I can do to fix it ? >> >> Thank you >> Markus >> >> "Charles Wilson" wrote in message > > PCYMTNQREAIYR -----^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > And please don't top-post: > A: Yes. > > Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > > It's complicated. The upstream maintainer of gettext REALLY dislikes a > mechanism used for symbol resolution by the GNU toolchain (gcc/ld) with > DLLs on mingw and cygwin: "auto-import". So, he arranges that gettext is > always compiled with --disable-auto-import. > > However, recent versions of g++'s runtime library, libstdc++, ITSELF, > require auto-import when linking IIUC. Hence, boom. > > I'm not sure this is easily fixed. IF I am correct, there are two > options: (1) teach g++ how to build a libstdc++ DLL that exports symbols > "properly" rather than requiring auto-import. This depends on a new > cygwin g++ compiler I think. OR, (2) override the build procedure for > gettext to ensure that --enable-auto-import is provided on every link > command, AFTER the "default" gettext setting of --disable-auto-import. > > IIRC, just setting LDFLAGS before configuring won't do it, because Bruno > *deliberately* arranged things to make overriding his desired auto-import > behavior difficult. > I just replaced disable-auto-import in configure and rerun with no change (see gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wl,--enable-auto-import ...). gcc -std=gnu99 -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DBISON_LOCALEDIR=\"\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DUSEJAVA= 0 -DUSEJEXE=0 -DGETTEXTJEXEDIR=\"/usr/lib/gettext\" -DGETTEXTJAR=\"/usr/share/gettext/gettext.jar\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib\" -DGETTEXTD ATADIR=\"/usr/share/gettext\" -DPROJECTSDIR=\"/usr/share/gettext/projects\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../libgrep -I../gnulib-lib -I../gnulib-lib -I../intl -I../../gettext-runtime/intl -DINSTALLDIR=\"/usr/bin\" -g -O2 -c -o msgcmp-msgl-fsearch .o `test -f 'msgl-fsearch.c' || echo './'`msgl-fsearch.c windres `/bin/sh ../../windows/windres-options --escape 0.18.1` -i ../../windows/gettext.rc -o gettext.res --output-format=coff /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link cc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wl,--enable-auto-import -o msgcmp.exe msgcmp-msgcmp.o msgcmp-msg l-fsearch.o libgettextsrc.la gettext.res libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wl,--enable-auto-import -o .libs/msgcmp.exe msgcmp-msgcmp.o msgcmp-msgl-fsearch.o gettext.res ./.libs/libgettextsrc.dll.a -L/usr/lib /home/markus/gettext-0.18.1.1/gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.dll.a /usr/lib/li bcroco-0.6.dll.a /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.dll.a /usr/lib/libpcre.dll.a /usr/lib/libintl.dll.a /usr/lib/libxml2.dll.a -lz /usr/lib/libncu rses.dll.a /home/markus/gettext-0.18.1.1/gettext-tools/intl/.libs/libintl.dll.a /usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/ 4.3.4/libstdc++.dll.a -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4 3 [main] ld 8344 sig_send: wait for sig_complete event failed, signal 6, rc 258, Win32 error 0 collect2: ld terminated with signal 6 [Aborted] /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libintl.dll.a(d000050.o): illegal symbol index 1633970 478 in relocs make[4]: *** [msgcmp.exe] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/markus/gettext-0.18.1.1/gettext-tools/src' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/markus/gettext-0.18.1.1/gettext-tools/src' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/markus/gettext-0.18.1.1/gettext-tools' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/markus/gettext-0.18.1.1/gettext-tools' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Regards Markus > -- > Chuck > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple