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On Jan 19 09:56, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 1/16/2013 1:35 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> >This is a serious bug in objcopy in the current binutils.  Given that
> >cygport creates the debug info automatically, we might end up with
> >spuriously broken DLLs in the distro.
> >
> >I checked with objcopy from the older binutils 2.51.53-2, and the
> >problem did not show up.  I also built the latest binutils release
> >2.23.1 and the problem also doesn't show, so we probably can get away
> >with just a black eye by updating binutils to 2.23.1.  Chris?
> >
> 
> Hi Corinna,
> it seems not so easy.
> 
> Just built from cvs
> 
> objcopy --version
> GNU objcopy (GNU Binutils) 2.23.51.20130119
> 
> but the problem is still there

You're right, unfortunately.  I don't know what I did when testing it 3
days ago, but now I can reproduce the crash even with 2.23.1.  Bummer.


Corinna

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