Re: GNU binutils - strip - BFD 2.13 Internal error

[Johan Vermeire WX21 /. Tel 54189]

Daniel,

First off all, my best wishes for this new year.

Sorry, that I'm replying so late, but it was very busy on the end of last year.

See my comments hereafter:



Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 01:14:47PM +0100, Johan Vermeire WX21 /. Tel 54189 
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I thougt this could be a bug for the strip tool:
> >
> > Platform:
> > btm0gn:/home/jvme/stripproblem> uname -a
> > SunOS btm0gn 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
> >
> > GNU binutils version 2.13 - strip:
> > btm0gn:/cmx_tools2/3EZ00325_Binutils_Sol_2.8/bin> strip -V
> > GNU strip 2.13
> > Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
> > the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
> >
> > strip in-file:
> > btm0gn:/cmx_tools2/3EZ00325_Binutils_Sol_2.8/bin> ls -al
> > ~mieghehu/stripproblem/TLK_REP.elf
> > -rwxrwxr-x   1 mieghehu xantium  30341264 Oct  2 11:40
> > /home/mieghehu/stripproblem/TLK_REP.elf
> >
> > *The .elf is produced with the Greenhills PowerPC cross-compiler on Solaris 
> > 2.8,
> > version 3.5 .
> >
> > Strip bug:
> > btm0gn:/cmx_tools2/3EZ00325_Binutils_Sol_2.8/bin> strip
> > ~mieghehu/stripproblem/TLK_REP.elf
> > strip: Warning: Output file cannot represent architecture UNKNOWN!
>
> We should really turn that into an error...
>

OK

>
> > BFD: BFD 2.13 internal error, aborting at elf.c line 4960 in
> > copy_private_bfd_data
> >
> > BFD: Please report this bug.
>
> It looks like you've got a set of Solaris-targeted binutils, right?
> You have to use a version of strip targeted at the same architecture as
> the file you are stripping...

You're right,
I've to reconfigure & build the binutils against the PowerPC architecture
which are the target platform in this case.

>
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Regards,

Johan Vermeire

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