I've added the info about Jeff's build failure and the likely fix to ticket 133. It will be fixed in the next service release.
Bill. 2009/3/16 Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com>: > Oh oh, no need. I know what is going on. This is a well-documented bug > in old versions of gas. > > You'll find notes to this effect throughout lots of old GMP assembly > files, along with workarounds. > > Another reason to use yasm for *everything*. > > Anyhow, this ought not affect our release. Anyone making a fat binary > should use a modern system, kernel, binutils, compiler, etc for best > performance. > > But this bug will get fixed when we fix the Sun as bug. I'll update the > ticket. > > Bill. > > 2009/3/16 Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com>: >> Jeff, if you haven't already cleaned up after the failure, could you >> please post the contents of mpn/tmp-fat_entry.s to the list. >> >> Blank lines at the start can be omitted. >> >> Bill. >> >> 2009/3/15 Jason Moxham <ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com>: >>> >>> On Sunday 15 March 2009 23:36:29 Bill Hart wrote: >>>> This actually looks like the same problem that causes the fat build to >>>> fail with the Sun assembler. >>>> >>>> The code is definitely correct, with PIC and non-PIC sections. So we >>>> infer that either: >>>> >>>> 1) PIC is not being passed correctly to gas/Sun as >>>> >>>> 2) M4 is screwing up >>>> >>>> 3) Certain versions of gas have a bug >>>> >>>> Here is the relevant section of Jeff's log: >>>> >>>> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile --tag=CC ../mpn/m4-ccas --m4="m4" >>>> gcc -std=gnu99 -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O2 -m64 -D__GMP_WITHIN_GMP -I.. >>>> -DOPERATION_`echo fat_entry | sed 's/_$//'` -I. -I.. `test -f >>>> 'fat_entry.asm' || echo './'`fat_entry.asm >>>> ../mpn/m4-ccas --m4=m4 gcc -std=gnu99 -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O2 -m64 >>>> -D__GMP_WITHIN_GMP -I.. -DOPERATION_fat_entry -I. -I.. fat_entry.asm >>>> -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/fat_entry.o >>>> m4 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D__GMP_WITHIN_GMP -DOPERATION_fat_entry -DPIC >>>> fat_entry.asm >tmp-fat_entry.s >>>> gcc -std=gnu99 -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O2 -m64 -D__GMP_WITHIN_GMP -I.. >>>> -DOPERATION_fat_entry -I. -I.. tmp-fat_entry.s -fPIC -DPIC -o >>>> .libs/fat_entry.o >>>> ../mpn/m4-ccas --m4=m4 gcc -std=gnu99 -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O2 -m64 >>>> -D__GMP_WITHIN_GMP -I.. -DOPERATION_fat_entry -I. -I.. fat_entry.asm >>>> -o fat_entry.o >/dev/null 2>&1 >>>> >>>> It's not jumping out at me! >>>> >>>> Bill. >>>> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
