Bug#178496: X server module loading broken on Alpha due to gcc 3.2's new relocation type

[Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>]

Package: xserver-xfree86
Version: 4.2.1-5
Severity: important

[...]
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 18
Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 17
Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 18
[...]

gcc 3.2 supports a new kind of relocation, which facilitates
instruction scheduling. The X ELF module loader doesn't know about it,
and therefore fails to load any module.

There's a patch mentioned at

http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/axp-list/msg19583.html

but it has at least one obvious bug. I will whether I find something
upstream or at Ret Hat, or write something myself.

	Falk


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: alpha
Kernel: Linux juist 2.5.59 #4 Sat Jan 18 12:46:41 CET 2003 alpha
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

Versions of packages xserver-xfree86 depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.2.21     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6.1                       2.3.1-10   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  xserver-common                4.2.1-3    files and utilities common to all 
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.4-9  compression library - runtime

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