Re: [Gcl-devel] Reloc type R_X86_64_PLT32

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks so much for bringing this to my attention!  I have
reproduced the problem and will be committing a fix shortly.

Take care,

Jerry James <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Camm,
>
> Fedora just did a mass rebuild of all packages in preparation for
> Fedora 29.  The gcl package failed to build, because unexpected reloc
> type R_X86_64_PLT32 was encountered in the relocate function of
> sfaslelf.c.
>
> The first symbol encountered with this reloc type is
> Lshadowing_import, although with readelf I can see that lots of
> symbols in package.o have that reloc type.  The build was performed
> with:
> - binutils 2.31.2
> - gcc 8.1.1
> - glibc 2.27.9000 (pre-2.28)
>
> The exact same sources build without that reloc type on Fedora 28, which has:
> - binutils 2.29.1
> - gcc 8.1.1
> - glibc 2.27
>
> Does this indicate a bug in the newer binutils?  Is it reasonable that
> this reloc type should show up?  Any advice you can give is much
> appreciated.  Thank you,

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Camm Maguire                                        address@hidden
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