The lastest versions of binutils is causing problems on HP

["'David Scott Urban" <urban at ast dot lmco dot com>]

After installing the latest version of binuntils it is causing problems on a HP 
running HP-UX 10.20. The following is an example. I not sure where to look since 
the example works when it is run in gdb.

Before installing the new binutils, I configured, built and test tcl 8.3 without 
any problems.

After builiding and installing the 03/12/00 snapshot of binutils, I was able to 
configure and build tcl without a problem. But, I get the following error when I 
try and test tcl:

gcc -pipe -Wl,-E tclTestInit.o tclTest.o tclTestObj.o tclTestProcBodyObj.o 
tclThreadTest.o      tclUnixTest.o -L/tmp_mnt/home/urban/tcl/tcl8.3.0/unix 
-ltcl8.3 -ldld  -lm -lc \
        -Wl,+s,+b,/home/urban/local/hp/lib:. -o tcltest
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; \
LIBPATH=`pwd`:; export LIBPATH; \
SHLIB_PATH=`pwd`:; export SHLIB_PATH; \
TCL_LIBRARY="/tmp_mnt/home/urban/tcl/tcl8.3.0/library"; export TCL_LIBRARY; \
./tcltest ./../tests/all.tcl 
/bin/sh: 2000 Bus error
gmake: *** [test] Error 138

When running in gdb, the test proceeds as expected as shown below:
gdb ./tcltest
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This GDB was configured as "hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20"...
(gdb) run ../tests/all.tcl
Starting program: /tmp_mnt/home/urban/tcl/tcl8.3.0/unix/./tcltest 
../tests/all.tcl
warning: Unable to find __d_pid symbol in object file.
warning: Suggest linking with /opt/langtools/lib/end.o.
warning: GDB will be unable to track shl_load/shl_unload calls
[New process 2055]
Detaching after fork from process 2055
[New process 2056]
Detaching after fork from process 2056
[New process 2057]
Detaching after fork from process 2057
[New process 2058]
Detaching after fork from process 2058
Tcl 8.3.0 tests running in interp:  
/tmp_mnt/home/urban/tcl/tcl8.3.0/unix/./tcltest
Tests running in working dir:  /tmp_mnt/home/urban/tcl/tcl8.3.0/tests
Only sourcing test files that match:  *.test
Tests began at Wed Mar 15 09:23:05 MST 2000
append.test
assocd.test
async.test
autoMkindex.test
basic.test
binary.test
case.test
clock.test
cmdAH.test
[New process 2059]
Detaching after fork from process 2059
[New process 2060]
Detaching after fork from process 2060
[New process 2061]
Detaching after fork from process 2061

Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
0x7affc640 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libc.1
(gdb) q
The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y

System configuration:
uname -a
HP-UX spica B.10.20 A 9000/735 2008140532 two-user license
gcc -v

Reading specs from 
/home/urban/local/hp/lib/gcc-lib/hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20/2.96/specs
gcc version 2.96 20000313 (experimental)

as -v
GNU assembler version 000312 (hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20) using BFD version 000312

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think this may be causing me some 
problems when I try to build RCS 5.7

Scott Urban


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