[Buildroot] ltrace hangings

[Buildroot] ltrace hangings

[Maxime Ripard]

Hi everyone,

I'm having a hard time here using ltrace with buildroot or crosstool-ng.

Basically, with a crosstool-NG 1.13.4, with the sample
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi (so uclibc 0.9.30.2), I get :
__uClibc_main(52956, 2, 0xbec42db4, 47280, 521292
and it hangs.

Same thing with a toolchain built by buildroot and with uclibc 0.9.32.

Finally, I tried still with buildroot, but using the latest codebench
glibc toolchain, I get:

# ltrace cat /proc/self/cmdline
__libc_start_main(53812, 2, 0xbefeedb4, 518624, 518824

Is it a wild guess to think that ltrace 0.5.3 is buggy, or am I doing
something wrong ?

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[Buildroot] ltrace hangings

[Yann E. MORIN]

Maxime, All,

On Tuesday 28 February 2012 17:47:40 Maxime Ripard wrote:
> I'm having a hard time here using ltrace with buildroot or crosstool-ng.
> 
> Basically, with a crosstool-NG 1.13.4, with the sample
> arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi (so uclibc 0.9.30.2), I get :
> __uClibc_main(52956, 2, 0xbec42db4, 47280, 521292
> and it hangs.
> 
> Same thing with a toolchain built by buildroot and with uclibc 0.9.32.
> 
> Finally, I tried still with buildroot, but using the latest codebench
> glibc toolchain, I get:
> 
> # ltrace cat /proc/self/cmdline
> __libc_start_main(53812, 2, 0xbefeedb4, 518624, 518824
> 
> Is it a wild guess to think that ltrace 0.5.3 is buggy, or am I doing
> something wrong ?

0.5.3 is now a bit old (2 years), and there has been a new release
about four months ago:
  http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/ltrace.git;a=summary

Maybe it's time we upgrade crosstool-NG to this new version...

Also, there seems to be a revamp in the process:
  http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/ltrace-devel/2012-January/000540.html

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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[Buildroot] ltrace hangings

[Maxime Ripard]

Hi Yann,

On 28/02/2012 23:33, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 February 2012 17:47:40 Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> I'm having a hard time here using ltrace with buildroot or crosstool-ng.
>>
>> Basically, with a crosstool-NG 1.13.4, with the sample
>> arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi (so uclibc 0.9.30.2), I get :
>> __uClibc_main(52956, 2, 0xbec42db4, 47280, 521292
>> and it hangs.
>>
>> Same thing with a toolchain built by buildroot and with uclibc 0.9.32.
>>
>> Finally, I tried still with buildroot, but using the latest codebench
>> glibc toolchain, I get:
>>
>> # ltrace cat /proc/self/cmdline
>> __libc_start_main(53812, 2, 0xbefeedb4, 518624, 518824
>>
>> Is it a wild guess to think that ltrace 0.5.3 is buggy, or am I doing
>> something wrong ?
> 
> 0.5.3 is now a bit old (2 years), and there has been a new release
> about four months ago:
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/ltrace.git;a=summary
> 
> Maybe it's time we upgrade crosstool-NG to this new version...

I've upgraded the package in buildroot to 0.6.0, and same problem here
on ARM. However, it works fine on x86 either using directly their
build-system and Ubuntu's gcc or using buildroot's internal toolchain
for x86 (with uClibc).

It seems like the bug is probably more arch-specific than I thought.


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Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com