RE: [iPAQ] bug in dymanic linker

Chris
        Don't know the answer to this one - anyone else?

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Blizzard [mailto:blizzard@mozilla.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 10:03 PM
To: Lawler, Tom
Cc: ipaq
Subject: Re: [iPAQ] bug in dymanic linker

Lawler, Tom wrote:

> Chris
> I ran into this also, if I remember correctly, you have a library
> compiled without -fPIC. You can do an objdump --dynamic-reloc
> <library-name>, if you see R_ARM_PC24 records, then that library needs to
be
> recompiled with -fPIC.

Thanks, this really helped. It turns out that the library was compiled
with -fPIC but it was including iostream code. Any time that the
iostream includes were referenced it created these symbols. Is there a
g++ library that is built in the skill cross compiler that also needs to
be built with -fPIC?

--Chris

>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Blizzard [mailto:blizzard@mozilla.org]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 3:51 PM
> To: ipaq
> Subject: [iPAQ] bug in dymanic linker
>
>
> So, I've got this nice, cross compiled mozilla build for the arm which
> was no small task in and of itself. However, I'm running into this bug
> with the dynamic linker. I saw the faq for this on the netwinder page
> and it seems like something that just doesn't work on the arm. Does
> anyone know how or if this is something that can be fixed? This is a
> show stopper for mozilla.
>
> --Chris
>
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> BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: ../sysdeps/arm/dl-machine.h: 450:
> elf_machine_rel: Assertion `! "unexpected dynamic reloc type"' failed!
Received on Tue Oct 24 10:48:24 2000