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Re: Did I find an error in the current binutils or what???


Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm just trying to build the new born openssh-3.0p1 for Cygwin.
> 
> There's a slight difference between 1.3.3 and 1.3.4 in so far as
> __progname is defined in 1.3.4 while it wasn't in 1.3.3.
> 
> Unfortunately, __progname isn't defined in any header file.  So what
> happens (and what should work fine in theory) is, I'm getting the
> following message at the end of the link stage:
> 
> Warning: resolving ___progname by linking to __imp____progname (auto-import)


Okay, so your program (ssh) was compiled without the appropriate 
__declspec(dllimport) decorator on __progname ('cause it isn't defined in 
ANY header).  Therefore, the auto-import stuff kicks in, and magically 
searchs for "__imp__" + desired_symbol.  It finds it (__imp____progname). 
So far, so good.


> Hum, the problem is that I'm getting _another_ message right after
> the above one:
> 
> nmth000000.o(.idata$4+0x0): undefined reference to `_nm____progname'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status


Except that the cygwin1.dll/libcygwin.a that you are linking against does 
not have the requisite auto-import support thunks (_nm__*).  Perhaps this 
cygwin was compiled using a (very) old binutils?  pre-20010802 ?

--Chuck



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