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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