Bug#354809: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#354809: db4.4: FTBFS (ppc64): syntax
error in VERSION script
Florian Weimer
fw at deneb.enyo.de
Mon Mar 20 18:32:10 UTC 2006
* Andreas Jochens:
> Looking at the attached two outputs of 'objdump -t' for the file
> 'obj/.libs/db185.o' on ppc64 and amd64 it appears that the symbols that
> are in the '.text' section on amd64 are in a section named '.opd' on
> ppc64.
That's because ppc64 uses function descriptors. It would probably
make sense for binutils to mostly hide this distinction (unless there
is a compelling reason not to do it).
> I am not an object file format expert at all, but I would take this
> as an indication that the current method of parsing of the nm output
> to create the Versions script is not really portable.
I still think this should be addressed in nm.
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