Hi Nick, On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > Do you have any other ways I could extract tapp.o besides using ar? > > Nope, sorry. > > > Please find libxvtxmapi.a and tapp.o > > Well that libxvtxmapi.a is definitely corrupt, and he tapp.o file is OK. > > > If I take ranlib out of the link.txt file, and then try to build, I get > > the same malformed archive message on libxvtxmapi.a, so it appears that > > the corruption occurs before ranlib is called. > > OK, then "ar" is the culprit. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] debug]$ ar --version > > GNU ar (GNU Binutils) 2.18.50.20080822 > > Looks good - are you sure that this the version being used by cmake ? > Ie is it possible that you have other versions of the ar program in your > search path ? It turns out there *is* another ar in the path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pclinux]$ ls /usr/bin/ar /usr/bin/ar [EMAIL PROTECTED] pclinux]$ /usr/bin/ar --version GNU ar 2.17.50.0.6-5.el5 20061020 Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty. [EMAIL PROTECTED] pclinux]$ The ar located in /usr/local/bin is the one that is version 2.18. Interesting! > > Do you have any suggestions in terms of how to intercept the build > > process? > > First check to see if the corruption takes place if you run the "ar" > command by hand, ie not inside the cmake process. If the corruption > does happen then it is the ar program that is to blame. If the > corruption does not happen then it is the build process/cmake that is to > blame. If I explicitly run the *correct* ar command by hand, /usr/local/bin/ar cr ../../lib/libxvtxmapi.a "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tapp.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tcb.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tctl.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tcxo.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tdebug.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tdlg.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tdm.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tdwin.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/terr.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tevent.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tfont.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tfsys.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tgmem.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/thtml.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/timage.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tiostr.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tlist.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tmem.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tmenu.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tnav.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tnotebk.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tpalet.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tpat.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tpict.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tpmap.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tprint.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/trect.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tres.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tsbar.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tscr.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tslist.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tstr.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/ttimer.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/ttreev.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/ttx.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tvobj.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/twin.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/rotated.o" "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/xvtcm.o" It gives me this ouput: /usr/local/bin/ar: ../../lib/libxvtxmapi.a: Malformed archive > If it is "ar" that is to blame, please could you see if you can reduce > the test to as few input object files as possible (whilst still showing > the corruption of tapp.o) and then put them together into a tarball and > email it to me, along with a copy of the exact command line that you > have been using. Ie I would like to try to reproduce the corruption locally. Okay, I'll send the files to you shortly. The command I'm using is simply 'make'. Thank you, Roger _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
