X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Subject: Re: rebaseall and cygstdc++-6.dll From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" To: cygwin Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:15:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4E7FD234.70102@gmail.com> References: <4E6AC3F4 DOT 1090401 AT gmail DOT com> <4E7EC532 DOT 9020306 AT gmail DOT com> <4E7FD234 DOT 70102 AT gmail DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1317006915.8692.1.camel@YAAKOV04> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 02:15 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > The problem is in binutils, and the fact that it generates base relocs for > entries from EH data that should be just ignored. > > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-09/msg00174.html > contains more detail, if you want to ask more let's do it on the binutils list. > > So to answer your question: the gcc language-specific runtime DLLs have to > be built using the patched version of binutils, otherwise they break when they > get rebased; that's why I'm rebuilding the gcc packages - having already > locally rebuilt binutils. This will only be a big issue for anyone who wants > to rebuild gcc from source themselves, the new packages I upload to the distro > will still work for everyone regardless of what binutils they have installed > and/or how or when or where they get rebased. Except that this issue doesn't affect only libstdc++, but any C++ library which throws exceptions (as I have seen on my system). So we really do need a patched binutils ASAP. Yaakov -- 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