binutils 2.11.92.0.5 is broke (Re: Binutils Bug)

["H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 07:52:07AM -0700, Leonard Zubkoff wrote:
> HJ,
> 
> In recompiling my whole system with your latest binutils-2.11.92.0.5, I
> received the following error while linking telnetd from the netkit-telnet-0.17
> package:
> 
> gcc  telnetd.o state.o termstat.o slc.o sys_term.o utility.o global.o 
> setproctitle.o -lutil -lutil -o telnetd
> /usr/bin/ld: BFD internal error, aborting at elf32-i386.c line 646 in 
> elf_i386_copy_indirect_symbol
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: Please report this bug.
> 
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Thought you'd want to know...
> 

Hi Alan,

This patch

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-10/msg00035.html

is incomplete. You cannot do any backend processing when

if (dir == ind->weakdef)

I will double check all backend xxx_hash_copy_indirect.

I am planning to make binutils 2.11.92.0.6 within a week.

Sorry for that.



H.J.