On Jun 4 15:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi, > > I have uploaded a new binutils 2.23.52-4 package to the 64 bit test > distro. > > It's an update to the latest from CVS plus the first version of an > official BFD patch to fix the spurious "relocation truncated to fit: > R_X86_64_PC32 ..." error. Here's what my college Nick Clifon has to
Clif*t*on. Sorry Nick! > say about this issue: > > What is happening is that the linker is attempting to resolve a > relocation against a symbol in a section that is going to be > discarded... So the section's address is set to 0, and because of > whatever base address happens to be set we can end up with the > relocation being for a valid or invalid 32bit pc-relative offset. > > The answer is simple - ignore relocations against discarded sections. > Well probably. > > So, this may or may not be the final patch, but I tested it against > linking the harfbuzz DLL with default settings and it builds. The > result also seems to work as expected since gtk-demo runs fine. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
