Re: [Gcl-devel] How to submit GCL patches

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Jerry James <address@hidden> writes:

| On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Camm Maguire <address@hidden>
| wrote:
| 
|           Greetings!     
|      First, let me thank you again so much for your attention and
|      contribution to GCL!  I've downloaded your patches and are looking
|      them over.     
|      Regarding the bfd patch, I cannot find a bfd version (on any debian
|      release version at least) which requires this output_bfd
|      setting.  Can you fill me in on the problem you encountered?
| 
| 
| With a sufficiently new BFD library (more on that in a moment), failing to set
| the output_bfd field triggers a crash due to a null pointer dereference when
| attempting to read symbols.  I took a look at upstream CVS.  This page:
|  
| [[http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/include/bfdlink.h?cvsroot=src]]
| indicates that the output_bfd field was added in version 1.71 of bfdlink.h,
| checked in on Feb 15, 2008.  Version 2.19 of binutils has subsequently been
| released.  I am on a Fedora 10 machine, where binutils reports its version as
| 2.18.50.0.9.  I presume that is some kind of development snapshot.  In any
| case, /usr/include/bfdlink.h on my machine shows the output_bfd field, and
| failing to set it results in the aforementioned crash.

Just as a data point: while I can build GCL (2.6.8pre) on
openSUSE-10.2, I cannot build it on any later versione,
e.g. openSUSE-11.x, which all comes with newer versions of binutils.

-- Gaby