Re: Attempt to fix #189031

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Martin Loschwitz wrote:
> Hello fellow mips developers, 
> 
> i have made an attempt to fix bug #189031. But due to my lack of MIPS
> machines, i was neither able to build nor to test the packages resulting
> from my try. So, could somebody with a MIPS machine with Debian GNU/Linux
> unstable on it please step forward and build/test my packages and report
> afterwards whether they work or not?
> 
> You can find the .diff.gz and the .dsc for my binutils package at
> http://people.debian.org/~madkiss/binutils/

It looks like you've just applied my binutils patch which got reverted
in the meanwhile and replaced by a simpler (and probably temporary)
solution which also should help for problems like #189031. The reason
for the reversion of my patch was that it breaks NewABI handling. This
is probably not a problem for Debian, as Debian does not support
NewABI anyway. However, I think keeping close to upstream's version is
a good idea.

I'm working on a better solution, but the relocation handling in MIPS
binutils is a horrible mess, and it's very easy to break things in
non-obvious ways, so don't hold your breath.


Thiemo