Re: Bug in ar

[Peter Graves]

I'm now very confused by the problem I reported this morning.

I've got two machines running Linux (one at home, one at work)
and a laptop running Windows 2000. The Linux machines are both
Intel architecture (K7 at home, PIII at work), both Debian
woody. The home machine is always very current (updated with
dselect 2 or 3 times a week); the work machine was last updated
on October 26. The home machine is running 2.4.0-test10; the
work machine is running 2.2.14.

I've got a C++ project whose files all live on the laptop (it
has plenty of disk space). I use g++ and friends to build this
project for Linux on each of the aforementioned Linux machines
by mounting the laptop's drive(s) with Samba (actually
smbmount). When I'm at work, things work fine. At home, I get
the error described in my original message below.

When I first reported the problem this morning, I was at home. I
remembered that things had worked correctly at the office, and I
made the assumption that this was because the machine at the
office had not been updated for a while (really, since October
26, but I didn't know the exact date at the time) and so had an
earlier version of ar.

However, when I got to the office this afternoon, I discovered
that both machines have exactly the same binary for ar.

I'm now completely mystified.

Sorry if I've wasted your time with this strange problem.

-Peter


>    Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:57:10 -0500 (EST)
>    From: "Christopher C. Chimelis" <address@hidden>
> 
>    What architecture is this?  Also, given that it's proprietary code (which
>    I understand :-), can you provide a small testcase to reproduce this?
> 
> Also, is the disk full?
> 
> Ian
> 
>    On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Peter Graves wrote:
> 
>    > Folks:
>    > 
>    > It says to report this bug, so here it is...
>    > 
>    > This is with the latest binutils from woody (2.10.0.27-0.cvs20001011.2).
>    > 
>    > Unfortunately the code is proprietary to my employer so I cannot provide 
> it.
>    > 
>    > Please let me know if there's any further information you need.
>    > 
>    > Thanks.
>    > 
>    > -Peter
>    > 
>    > ---- cut here ----
>    > 
>    > $ ar --version
>    > GNU ar 2.10.91
>    > Copyright 1997, 98, 99, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>    > This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
>    > the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
>    > 
>    > $ ar -rv ../../../Bin/linux/debug/applib.a *.o
>    > a - applib.o
>    > a - Attribute.o
>    > a - AttributeDeclaration.o
>    > a - Debug.o
>    > a - Document.o
>    > a - CDataSection.o
>    > a - DemoHandler.o
>    > a - DOMHandler.o
>    > a - Element.o
>    > a - ElementDeclaration.o
>    > a - Entity.o
>    > a - NamedNodeMap.o
>    > a - Node.o
>    > a - NodeList.o
>    > a - NotationDeclaration.o
>    > a - Parser.o
>    > a - ProcessingInstruction.o
>    > a - Reader.o
>    > a - TextNode.o
>    > a - WString.o
>    > a - CDebug.o
>    > a - CSocket.o
>    > a - CSocketLibrary.o
>    > a - CSettings.o
>    > BFD: BFD internal error, aborting at ../../bfd/libbfd.c line 606 in 
> bfd_write_bigendian_4byte_int
>    > 
>    > BFD: Please report this bug.
>    > 
>    > 
>    > 
>    > 
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