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Segmentation Fault using cross architecture ld command

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Thu Aug 7 08:27:00 GMT 2008 
Hi John,

> At ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/snapshots I see what look like a
> daily snapshot and daily and weekly accumulation of "patch" files, am I
> correct in this?

Yes.

> So instead of trying to pull down each and every
> module (extremely prone to error for me)

Hmm, well just to be clear.  In CVS terms there is only one "module" for 
the binutils (called "binutils") but there are quite a few top level 
directories that make up this module.

It sounds however as if you have problems pulling lots of information 
down over the internet, so pulling the binutils module is going to be 
just as problematic for you as pulling a snapshot.


> I should pull down, unzip and
> "build" the latest snapshot to verify if the problem has gone or still
> exists.  Correct?  

Yes.  The caveat though is that the binutils sources are being 
continuously worked on, so the snapshot you pull down will soon be out 
of date.  (This is one of the advantages of using a source code control 
system like CVS.  Once you have pulled down the binutils module from the 
CVS server you can keep your sources up to date by just using the update 
command to only download the changes that you need).

This also means that any patch that I or any of the other binutils 
developers may produce to address this problem might not apply to the 
snapshot that you are using.  (We always produce patches against the 
latest sources in the CVS repository).  It may not be a problem in this 
case, but you should be aware of the possibility.

Cheers
   Nick
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