On Mon Sep 14 2009 at 08:15:36 +0100, Nick Hudson wrote: > > In the future if you run across a problem which you are unable to > > understand, debug and fix on your own, please ask for assistance. > > Commits with handwavy and incorrect information make it more difficult > > to track down and fix the real issues. > > I tried to contact you on several occasions, but you chose to ignore me. > *shrug*
I'm sorry, then. The commit messages and this are the only emails I've seen from you on the subject. Maybe you should quote something like "no comment from foo" in a commit message in the future? > > The binutils regression is that between 2.16 and 2.19 __start_sectname > > for orphaned sections was changed to use PROVIDE instead of define and > > hence those symbols are not available anymore in library components > > produced with ld. I have provided a quick workaround which allows the > > build to work with both with 2.16 and 2.19 while not silently breaking > > functionality like in your model. > > > > Please revert all of your incorrect commits. > > Feel free to fix rump and linksets correctly. It's been explained to you why > they can't work properly together. rump hasn't relied on linksets since August 2008 (and even then there was only a few day window of linkset use after introducing dynamic linking to rump). The only thing that matters is the entry point, which, incidentally, is what binutils 2.19 chaged.
