Re: Bug#165837: bigloo: relocation error
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:18:48PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > I just downloaded the latest beta version of bigloo and recompiled
> > it with libc6 2.3. I no longer recieve any error messages when i
> > use the compiler. It appears that a simple recompilation may be
> > the only thing needed to fix this problem.
> But then, it is surely not the bigloo package which caused the
> problem (except maybe if there's a conditional in libgc). Where
> does this reference to this undocumented symbol comes from ?
> Doesn't it come from some glibc header ? Maybe they just overlooked
> something when they decided to hide the symbol ?
Something in bigloo uses an undocumented feature in glibc. That
feature doesn't exist anymore. The function specifically was never
documented, nor did it ever appear in a header.
I haven't looked into it beyond that.
--
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but in practice, it sucks :)
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