Re: mipsel binutils/gcc/glibc shared library breakage

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Pjotr Kourzanov wrote:
> Dear Debian developers,
> 
>   I gather there are some people out there with MIPS little-endian 
> machines (from mipsel drop discussion) and Debian on it. Do huge shared 
> libraries (containing >40000 symbols) work for you? I am currently 
> investigating an issue I have with my MIPS32r4, binutils > 2.14.90, 
> gcc-3.3.5 and glibc 2.3.2 (all Debian sources), which prevents e.g. 
> Qt/Embedded to be used as shared library.

The Debian binutils refuse to build multigot libraries with more than
16k external symbols. This is a workaround to prevent silent breakage,
and most larger shared libraries can still be built by compiling with
-Wa,-xgot.


Thiemo