On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Stuart Anderson wrote: > This loader is different from the libc loader in that it operates on the > symbols that are used when linking an object (and are the ones that get > stripped). This differ from the .so libraries that the libc loader uses. They > have a .dynsym section which is still there even if the object gets stripped.
Ok, that'll help me track it down. There is a problem with objcopy/strip that I'm trying to track down (I'm the binutils maintainer for Debian, incidentally), so that may be involved as well. > What is the error message when it chokes? I'll dig out an old log and forward it to the list. I don't have the message handy right now and am running too many package builds to start X right now. > It is still puzzleing why it does something different on Alpha vs others. > Maybe someone could run objdump --headers on Alpha & x86 versions of the > same modules so we can see if there are any interesting differences. Will do...now that I have an x86 around here, it'll be easy to compare... C
