From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:55:25 -0800 Received: from sgi.SGI.COM ([192.48.153.1]:52998 "EHLO sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:55:09 -0800 Received: from dhcp-163-154-5-240.engr.sgi.com ([163.154.5.240]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id SAA01531 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:55:08 -0800 (PST) mail_from (ralf@oss.sgi.com) Received: (ralf@lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de) by bacchus.dhis.org id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:01:06 -0800 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:01:06 -0800 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Justin Carlson , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: GDB 5 for mips-linux/Shared library loading with new binutils/glibc Message-ID: <20010127110106.F867@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <0101261750492Y.00834@plugh.sibyte.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 09:01:47AM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 09:01:47AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > I've contributed all patches I've written myself. Unfortunately, most of > the code needed for gdb 5.0 to run on MIPS was taken from the 4.x CVS at > oss.sgi.com. As such it is required all authors of patches have to have > their copyright assigned to FSF before committing them to the gdb CVS. > > I've asked people to resolve ownership of the code here some time ago, > but it seems nobody is really interested in getting this code into > official gdb, sigh... The only people who have contributed amounts of code large enough for the FSF to requires an assignment are David Miller (davem@redhat.com) and myself. I've already signed an assignment with the FSF and I'm also sure David has. I btw. cannot remember having seen any mail from you regarding copyright assignments of GDB. > > However, ld.so seems to know nothing about relocating shared library with a > > non-zero shared library base address, which causes dynamically linked > > stuff to crash spectacularly. > > Does it? Please provide more details. All of my system (linux 2.4.0, > glibc 2.2.1) is dynamically linked and it works fine. I don't know what you look at - ld.so fails to handle libraries which are not linked to 0x5fffe000 ... > > binutils we're using is from CVS as of about Dec 17th. Glibc is also a > > snapshot from about the same time. > > Glibc should be fine as is although you might consider getting the 2.2.1 > release. You may try to check if patches from my binutils package (also > available at the mentioned site) solve certain or all of your problems. > The patches have been proposed for an inclusion in the upcoming binutils > 2.11 release -- I hope they will finally get there. Ulf? Ralf