Re: lynx

[Scott Bambrough <scottb@corelcomputer.com>]

Jim Pick wrote:
> 
> bdale@gag.com (Bdale Garbee) writes:
> 
> > I have 3.3.2.3a-11.arm.1 built, with fbdev and svga servers.  I'm tweaking
> > the package building control scripts, and haven't tried any of it yet.
> >
> > Along the way, I realized 'lynx' failed to build in my dbuild run
> > the other day, and the package build script for the xterm package
> > wants it to process a .html of the faq to make a .txt copy.  I'm
> > going out of town until Tuesday in a few hours, If anyone has time
> > to work on lynx while I'm gone, that would be nice.
> 
> I'll take a look at it.  I tried building it, and it fails like this:
> 
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DNSL_FORK  -I../../.. -I../../../src -I../../.. -I../../../src -I../../../WWW/Library/Implementation -O2 -DLINUX    -I../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/ -DXMOSAIC_HACK -DACCESS_AUTH  -c  ../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTTP.c
> /tmp/cc7yumcg.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/cc7yumcg.s:2388: Error: Can not represent OFFSET_IMM relocation in this object file format (1)
> make[2]: *** [../../Library/unix/HTTP.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jim/src/lynx/lynx-2.8.1/WWW/Library/unix'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> My guess is that it is an egcs bug.  The offending assembly looks like:
> 
>   2385  .L859:
>   2386          cmp     r7, #0
>   2387          addne   r6, r7, #1
>   2388          ldreq   r6, .LC138
>   2389          beq     .L862
>   2390          ldr     ip, [fp, #-2320]
>   2391          rsb     r3, r9, r6
>   2392          rsb     r3, r3, ip
>   2393          str     r3, [fp, #-2272]
>   2394          b       .L863
> 
> But there is no .LC138 symbol defined anywhere else.
> 
> Lynx did build successfully back when we were using Corel's gcc.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>  - Jim

This is a known bug in EGCS.  Turn optimization off on the file.

Scott