On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 09:01:47AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > I've contributed all patches I've written myself. Unfortunately, most of > the code needed for gdb 5.0 to run on MIPS was taken from the 4.x CVS at > oss.sgi.com. As such it is required all authors of patches have to have > their copyright assigned to FSF before committing them to the gdb CVS. > > I've asked people to resolve ownership of the code here some time ago, > but it seems nobody is really interested in getting this code into > official gdb, sigh... The only people who have contributed amounts of code large enough for the FSF to requires an assignment are David Miller (davem@redhat.com) and myself. I've already signed an assignment with the FSF and I'm also sure David has. I btw. cannot remember having seen any mail from you regarding copyright assignments of GDB. > > However, ld.so seems to know nothing about relocating shared library with a > > non-zero shared library base address, which causes dynamically linked > > stuff to crash spectacularly. > > Does it? Please provide more details. All of my system (linux 2.4.0, > glibc 2.2.1) is dynamically linked and it works fine. I don't know what you look at - ld.so fails to handle libraries which are not linked to 0x5fffe000 ... > > binutils we're using is from CVS as of about Dec 17th. Glibc is also a > > snapshot from about the same time. > > Glibc should be fine as is although you might consider getting the 2.2.1 > release. You may try to check if patches from my binutils package (also > available at the mentioned site) solve certain or all of your problems. > The patches have been proposed for an inclusion in the upcoming binutils > 2.11 release -- I hope they will finally get there. Ulf? Ralf
