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Re: [64bit] binutils 2.23.52-4
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 21:40:04 +0200
- Subject: Re: [64bit] binutils 2.23.52-4
- References: <20130604134919 dot GA25828 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <51AE3FFB dot 1040005 at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Jun 4 14:28, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2013-06-04 08:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >I have uploaded a new binutils 2.23.52-4 package to the 64 bit test
> >distro.
>
> I have prepared a cygwin64-binutils.i686 with this patch to match.
>
> But this recent (and unrelated) upstream change has caused
> libiberty.a not to be installed by default:
>
> >2013-05-31 Matt Burgess <matthew AT linuxfromscratch.org>
> >
> > PR other/56780
> > * libiberty/configure.ac: Move test for --enable-install-libiberty
> > outside of the 'with_target_subdir' test so that it actually gets
> > run. Add output messages to show the test result.
> > * libiberty/configure: Regenerate.
> > * libiberty/Makefile.in (install_to_libdir): Place the
> > installation of the libiberty library in the same guard as that
> > used for the headers to prevent it being installed unless
> > requested via --enable-install-libiberty.
>
>
> It seems this was done to stop the host-libiberty from being
> installed with gcc, but libbfd still requires symbols provided
> thereby, so the lack of libiberty breaks the build of dumper.exe. I
> believe this needs to be fixed in the toplevel configury, and have
> added a comment to that effect to the PR, but in the meantime,
> binutils (both i686 and x86_64) will need to be configured with
> --enable-install-libiberty.
I was going to create a -5 binutils package configured with
--enable-install-libiberty, but libiberty.a is not installed.
Is there something else I have to do to accomplish that?
Corinna
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