From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4AMTrf17352 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 10 May 2001 15:29:53 -0700 Received: from dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4AMTpF17320 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 15:29:51 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4AIkdP01574; Thu, 10 May 2001 15:46:39 -0300 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:46:39 -0300 From: Ralf Baechle To: Michael Shmulevich Cc: Shay Deloya , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: insmod problems Message-ID: <20010510154639.B1269@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <01050619134301.01140@athena.home.krftech.com> <20010508234036.A1216@bacchus.dhis.org> <3AFA56F8.9090504@jungo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AFA56F8.9090504@jungo.com>; from michaels@jungo.com on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:53:12AM +0300 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:53:12AM +0300, Michael Shmulevich wrote: > On the same topic: same source (!!) 'insmod' executable compiled with > new (2.10) binutils doesn't exibit such relocation problem. > > What may be causing 'insmod' to be dependant on binutils which compile > it? The module *.o is exactly same as it was before. Without further explanation this one just sounds bizarre for now. There always have been differences between the code generated by binutils in the various versions; the resulting changes may result in different behaviour of a broken programs. These are fun to debug to say the least. The other possibility would be binutils bugs but I'm not aware of one with the effect you described. Ralf