Re: Bug#556951: [binutils] objcopy fails with 'Invalid operation'
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 07:58:47PM -0600, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 18.11.2009 14:54, Peter Fritzsche wrote:
>> forwarded 556951 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10982
>> thanks
>>
>> Matthias Klose wrote:
>> [....]
>>>> `debian/sauerbraten-dbg/usr/lib/debug//usr/lib/games/sauerbraten/sauer_cl
>>>> ient': Invalid operation dh_strip: objcopy returned exit code 1
>>>>
>>>> Is this a known problem with binutils-gold?
>>>
>>> yes, I did see this as well recently.
>> Could it be that it is new with 2.20-3 or 2.20-4? I think I didn't saw that in
>> earlier version. I think I saw it the first time when compiling batctl - which
>> I compiled right after update of my Sources file. This was after the 11.
>> November.
>>
>> I wanted to write a bug report right now but haven't a glue why it fails.
>>
>> objcopy --only-keep-debug debian/batctl/usr/sbin/batctl debian/batctl-dbg/usr/lib/debug//usr/sbin/batctl
>>
>> seems to work without any problems. The real problem is
>>
>> objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink debian/batctl-dbg/usr/lib/debug//usr/sbin/batctl debian/batctl/usr/sbin/batctl
>>
>> So a small test would be:
>>
>> $ echo 'int main() { return 0; }'> test.c&& \
>> gcc -g3 test.c -o test&& \
>> objcopy --only-keep-debug test test.dbg&& \
>> objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=./test.dbg test&& echo "cool it works"
>> objcopy:stCdJOm4: cannot create debug link section `./test.dbg': Invalid operation
>>
>> This works with the old linker, but not with binutils-gold
>>
>> So I build the cvs version of the linker and objcopy and it is the same here.
>> So it is propably an upstream bug.
>
> I only see this when upgrading to current glibc in unstable; not with testing.
>
Could you be more precise with the versions? glibc in testing and
unstable have the same version.
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