Re: PLEASE READ: egcs issues -- workaround

[Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>]

On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:04:47PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:

> If generic programs compiled by someone using Debian don't run elsewhere,
> that could be a problem.  So we fix the compiler.  But hold up the distro
> because other debs were compiled with that compiler?  I don't think so.

Hey guys, I found a solution to the __register_frame_pointer problem a while
ago.  Incidentally, I'm seeing RPM's built with that bug too.

	mkdir /tmp/blah
	cd /tmp/blah
	ar x /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.91.60/libgcc.a
	gcc -o /tmp/libframe-faker.so -shared *.o
	
	export LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/libframe-faker.so
	<run the broken program>
	
(I hope I didn't forget anything there...)
	
If you try to run a program that needs __register_frame_pointer and your
libc6 doesn't have it included (which is normal), you can LD_PRELOAD the
library and off it goes.

It's kind of ugly, but it works.  Maybe we should just provide a
compatibility library?

Have fun,

Avery