On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 02:15 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > The problem is in binutils, and the fact that it generates base relocs for > entries from EH data that should be just ignored. > > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-09/msg00174.html > contains more detail, if you want to ask more let's do it on the binutils > list. > > So to answer your question: the gcc language-specific runtime DLLs have to > be built using the patched version of binutils, otherwise they break when they > get rebased; that's why I'm rebuilding the gcc packages - having already > locally rebuilt binutils. This will only be a big issue for anyone who wants > to rebuild gcc from source themselves, the new packages I upload to the distro > will still work for everyone regardless of what binutils they have installed > and/or how or when or where they get rebased.
Except that this issue doesn't affect only libstdc++, but any C++ library which throws exceptions (as I have seen on my system). So we really do need a patched binutils ASAP. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple