Re: static linking / HOSTING_LIBS

[Pragnesh Sampat <pragnesh dot sampat at timesys dot com>]

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 00:35, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:08:15PM -0500, Pragnesh Sampat wrote:
> > I was trying to trying to compile glibc cross tools for host, with nptl
> > turned on.  Pretty much everything else in this pass of glibc, except
> > for sln and ldconfig appear to build ok.  I also had similar failures in
> > the nptl testsuite (some of the tests failed with the same undefined
> > references).
> 
> This is unlikely to be a binutils problem, and certainly won't be
> affected by the patch I made to HOSTING_LIBS.  You've probably hit a
> glibc problem.
> 

Thanks, will pursue that.

> > With ldconfig, In addition to the above, there were also a BFD_ASSERT
> > from elflink.c.  I don't have the log right now, but can easily get it
> 
> Any bfd assert indicates a binutils bug.  Some might be relatively
> harmless, eg. It might be a situation where we've warned about something
> instead of giving a hard error.

Will post/file a log of the asserts later if does turn out to be a real
problem.  It was a warning, from what I recall.

-Pragnesh