[parisc-linux] RPM and hppa

[Alan Modra]

On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> - g++ explodes trying to build groff after allocating about 400Mb of RAM.
>   Building -O0 works

Yeah, this is a known issue.  I see on the gcc list that rth and others
have been working on gcc fixes recently that should address the problem.
I don't have the time/ability to fix it myself.

> - the configure script for procmail tries to find the largest argument set
>   that works (by searching). It crashes the kernel in doing so 8)
> 
> - ldd is causing page faults in ld.so (kernel logged ones) and dying with
>   segv. Fortunately it outputs the library list first

How old are your glibc and binutils?  I made some changes late October
that should have fixed this problem.  See
http://puffin.external.hp.com/mailing-lists/parisc-linux/2000/10-Oct/0146.html
Does "readelf -d" on your hppa-linux ld.so show you have a DT_TEXTREL tag?

> - The linker appears to have a problem when resolving symbols between three
>   shared objects while doing a shared object link.
> 
>   [Example is rpm:
> 
> 	rpmlib is linked dynamically with -ldb3 -ldb
> 
> 	The linker emits messages about symbols being static and should be
> 	built -fPIC. If you dump the libraries they are -fPIC.
> 
> 	It looks as if its resolving a symbol between two shared libraries
> 	and making a static resolution that then blows up when the third
> 	library gets involved
> 
>    ]

Could you put all the objects involved in the link up for ftp
somewhere?  I've just built rpm-2.5.6 without seeing this problem, but I'm
sure my setup is different to yours...

Regards, Alan Modra
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