On 14 Aug 2011 00:30, "Gordan Bobic" <gordan@bobich.net> wrote:
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> On 08/13/2011 10:23 PM, Niels de Vos wrote:
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>> On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 10:24:03AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08/05/2011 09:07 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for pointing out, it does look like the same bug. So what's the
>>>> fix/workaround?
>>>>
>>>> On 08/05/2011 08:59 PM, Niels de Vos wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5 Aug 2011 19:15, "Gordan Bobic"<gordan@bobich.net
>>>>> <mailto:gordan@bobich.net>>  wrote:
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  >  How does one pick the correct "ports" part of glibc for the correct core?
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  >  I tried to build the RHEL6 glibc with the F13 ports tar ball, but the
>>>>>  >  build eventually fails:
>>>>>  >
>>>>> /usr/lib/gcc/armv5tel-redhat-linux-gnueabi/4.4.5/libgcc_eh.a(unwind-arm.o):
>>>>>  >  In function `__gnu_Unwind_Backtrace':
>>>>>  >  (.text+0x8b8): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_guard'
>>>>>  >  collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks very much like the error in
>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726495
>>>
>>>
>>> What is it linking against?  __stack_chk_guard should be defined in
>>> libc.a.
>>
>>
>> Adding -W,l:$PATH_TO_JUST_COMPILED/libc.a seems to work. The linker than
>> finds __stach_chk_guard for the .so's that require -static-libgcc. This
>> hack is now attached to Bug 726495. A scratch build is also running, in
>> a local mock it was successful:
>> - http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=151594
>>
>> I'm really not sure how the linker is supposed to find libc.a (which was
>> compiled a little earlier during the building of the glibc package). It
>> works for other architectures, so there must be some trick somewhere...
>>
>> (Note, this is all for F-14's glibc-2.13 on armv5tel.)
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>
>
> Interesting, I'll look into that. I'm currently looking at this bug in relation to the glibc build issues:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708452

The result of bug 708452 was the inclusion of a patch for tzdata-update.c in upstream. That bz did not fix the __stack_chk_guard compile issue. I would advise you to with the argument from Jakub and do not break unwinding.

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> Just on the off-chance that it might be related, particularly the patch that the MeeGo guys applied to get it to work.
>
> I'll report back when/if I get somewhere with this.
>
> Gordan