Re: [E-devel] problem with dlopen and Debian-woody.

[Tom G. <to...@li...>]

* Carsten Haitzler (ra...@ra...) wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 21:42:59 +0000 Tom Gilbert <to...@li...> babbled
> profusely:
> 
> > 
> > But raster, we do have to fix this. We can't keep telling people to
> > downgrade. It _is_ a problem with imlib2, and it does cause imlib2 to
> > break with any binutils > .90.x (and there have been like 5 releases
> > since then), and it's nothing to do with debian, I tried an official
> > tarball. I also tried different versions of libtool.
> >
> > The binutils people say it's a problem with imlib2. Recent binutils is
> > more fussy about non-PIC code where it should be PIC (an explicit change
> > they made), and it seems that imlib2's use of loaders (or how it builds
> > them) is buggy. As far as the binutils guys are concerned, imlib2 has
> > been broken all along and it's only being revealed by the latest
> > binutils.
> 
> aah.. in a matter of 30 seconds i've narrowed it... it's the mmx asm - disable
> mmx and it runs happily.. now what about inlined asm is making binutils severely
> unhappy (i couldnt even get a backtrace - it was barfing whilst mmaping
> libc.so.6 - very nasty..)

See? I knew you'd be better at finding this bug than me :)

I never even looked at the .S files :)

Tom.
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