The Cu provides more info about this error: > > One more thing -- we see the following warnings while building the > acroread binary on Solaris x86 (These come only with the Sun native > linker. GNU's linker does not give these warnings). > > ld: warning: global symbol `_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_' has non-global binding: > > (file libBIB.so value=LOCL); > > > > This happens for a few of the libraries (which as the error indicates > have the GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE as a local symbol. Do you think these > warnings could have anything to do with the GDB issue?
Bo-Ying Lu wrote: > Ali, > > This is Cu's feedback: >> elfdump acroread does not dump anything to stderr. > I'll ask the Cu to give us a copy > > Thanks > > Brian > > Ali Bahrami wrote: >> Bo-Ying Lu wrote: >>> Hi, experts, >>> >>> Adobe is trying to port the acroread to x86+nevada and x86+S10. >>> They use gcc 4.1.0 and gdb (shipped with solaris) to compile and >>> debug the reader. >>> They got following errors when trying to load reader with gdb (dbx >>> has the same error): >>>> This GDB was configured as "i386-pc-solaris2.11"...BFD: acroread: >>>>> invalid string offset 10535297 >= 96 for section `.shstrtab' >>>>> >>>>> Segmentation Fault (core dumped) >>>>> >>>>> We get the error message on both Opensolaris+x86 (gdb version - 6.3) >>>>> and Solaris10+x86 (gdb evrsion - 6.6) >>> Does anyone know why and how to resolve this? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >> >> It seems clear that you have a corrupt object. >> >> When you asked this same question last week, Rod asked you to >> use elfdump and report the errors it reported: >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=67508&tstart=0 >> >> Did you do that? What did it report on stderr? >> >> Without knowing how this object was produced, I can't >> do more than guess. Can you provide us with a copy >> of the object? >> >> - Ali > > -- Best regards Brian Lu (Boying Lu) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-linking/attachments/20080728/a280c524/attachment.html>
