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Re: Fix bootstrap/14207 by reverting libstdc++ patch
Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 21:41, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> "Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS)" <david.billinghurst@comalco.riotinto.com.au> writes:
>> > I have reverted the patch below on 3.4 branch to fix PR bootstrap/14207
>> > on mips-sgi-irix6.5 -o32 with MIPS toolchain
>> >
>> > Paolo agreed in a private email. Almost certainly the patch revealed
>> > a MIPS assembler or loader bug.
>>
>> > Interestingly the same patch is in mainline with no problems.
>>
>> Then please let's analyze and fix the MIPS problem. It might hit us
>> again in another situation. I don't think that reverting the patch is
>> really the right action here...
>
> I've reopened the bug and asked David to test using gnu binutils (which
> I _can_ fix). If it ends up being an irix as/ld problem there's probably
> little I can do. But let's see if we can at least identify the problem
> first.
FWIW, I just tried a bootstrap on irix with native tools and
with Paolo's patch reapplied. libstdc++-v3 seemed to build fine.
The box I use has MIPSpro 7.30 installed, compared to David's 7.4.1m.
Richard