-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Falk Hueffner wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:54:03PM -0500, Mike Furr wrote: >>This is actually a bug in binutils (338148). I'll leave this bug >>here just so it doesn't get reported again. > AFAICT, 338148 is about ocaml not setting .prologue correctly, and not > about a binutils bug. Can you give more details? Sure, especially since a few things have changed since then. :) After a recent upload of the OCaml compilers, we were noticing that many programs built by the OCaml compiler on alpha were segfaulting. It was quickly determined that this behavior existed exactly when a new version of binutils was installed on the system. As this version of binutils was a CVS snapshot uploaded to unstable, it was immediately suspected. After some more investigation described in 338148, we found out that it was actually OCaml which was at fault. A new version of OCaml was uploaded yesterday which has a work-around for this bug and appears to produce working binaries on alpha.
The reason felix is segfaulting in the tests is because the binary used to compile the test was produced with the misbehaving OCaml (and new binutils). Thus, the resolution of this bug depended on having a fixed OCaml package (I previously said binutils as that was what was suspected at the time). Now that new packages have been uploaded, the Debian OCaml team is putting together a list of packages built on alpha during that time so they can be bin-NMU'd. felix is obviously one of these. Hope this clears things up, - -Mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDmwRZ7ZPKKRJLJvMRAmw2AJ9eHb2movh8/C6M3i0IAVss0D/ltQCgn1Vs NciZljAtwMG1nv7vzYfANyw= =IhMW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
