Re: target/5505: Doubts about a patch for OSF

["Richard B. Kreckel" <kreckel at ginac dot de>]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Richard B. Kreckel wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Rainer Orth wrote:
> > Fine.  Instead of patching the whole machine, it should be sufficient to
> > just drop a copy of the patched ld in
> > $prefix/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-dec-osf5.1/3.0.4/ld.
> 
> The machine isn't operated by myself, unfortunately.  I have to wait for a
> planned downtime tomorrow.  Then, the machine will be patched.
> 
> [...]
> > I've re-bootstrapped GCC 3.0.4 20020129 with no regressions compared to
> > 3.0.2 20010921, and this version still creates a working CLN 1.1.4 which
> > passes make check.  I've even tried to drop the Tru64 UNIX V5.1 ld (before
> > any patches) into the gcc tree as mentioned above and rebuilt CLN, which
> > keeps working.  This may mean that ld isn't the culprit or the error only
> > happens when linking libstdc++.
> 
> Thanks for this piece of information.  After our last email I had grown
> suspicious, too, about ld being the only reason for this failure...

Sigh.  Finally they have patched the machine up to ld from patch 358 --
sorry it took so long.  Unfortunately, the problem does not go away.  I
have bootstrapped gcc-3.0.3 and compiled CLN from scratch and it still
complains about multiple symbols and crashes upon execution.

So I have still no idea what is needed for gcc to function properly and,
hence, cannot provide a proper documentation patch.  I'm afraid, this is
as good as it gets, unless somebody can come up with an educated guess
what to try next.

Regards
    -richy.
-- 
Richard B. Kreckel
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