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Re: nodejs package issues



On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 08:23:05AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
> I've got bigger fish to fry at the moment.  In particular a
> binutils/glibc bug that is causing segfaults in the dynamic symbol
> resolver.  Try this: write a simple "Hello world" program in C.
> Compile with "-Wl,-z,now" linker option which causes the dynamic
> loader to resolve all symbols at program invocation, rather than
> resolving symbols when first used.  If compiled with a recent
> toolchain it segfaults [2].
> (...)
> 
> [2] Toolchain gcc 4:6.1.1-1, binutils 2.27-8 produces a working
> executable, but toolchains later than gcc 4:6.2.1-1, binutils
> 2.27.90.20170124-2 are known to be bad.

Verified the broken behavior for a kernel.org kernel version 4.9.0 with
gcc 6.3.0 20170205 (Debian 6.3.0-6) and binutils 2.27.90.20170205.  This
is *nasty*.

--Bob


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