Regression caused by commit 7682323a3a798d6f15708f228f859a64cb869aa3

Carmelo AMOROSO carmelo.amoroso at st.com
Wed Nov 30 13:57:49 UTC 2011


On 29/11/2011 17.18, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Carmelo AMOROSO <carmelo.amoroso at st.com> wrote:
>> On 28/11/2011 18.33, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Carmelo AMOROSO <carmelo.amoroso at st.com> wrote:
>>>> On 28/11/2011 3.15, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Saturday 26 November 2011 19:07:44 Khem Raj wrote:
>>>>>>> If I build the root file system without this patch everything works
>>>>>>> as expected. Could you explain why this commit is needed ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> it's a merge commit that happens when you merge a branch that isn't a fast
>>>>>> forward.  it isn't an actual "commit" ...
>>>>>
>>>>> right. I think its set of prelink changes that I am looking at. That
>>>>> merge commit is the data point I have
>>>>> I was looking for Carmelo has seen something similar. I can provide
>>>>> the two root file systems
>>>>> built with and without that merge commit.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> khem,
>>>> are you able to reproduce the failure with a simpler test case ? it
>>>> would be the best.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I am trying to get to it. but its a full X system that comes up but
>>> fonts are wrong.
>>> it will definitely take some time since it has to be debugged all way through
>>> I am not an X expert either :)
>>>
>>
>> are you running with prelink disabled ?
> 
> yes LDSO_PRELINK_SUPPORT and even LDSO_STANDALONE_SUPPORT are not set
> same .config works if I revert back the prelink changes.
> 

Hi Khem
have you tried with the patch
[PATCH] ldso: invoke elf_machine_relocations in any case

could you list the commits you have reverted ? it will help me a lot in
debugging.

Thanks,
Carmelo

>> w/o prelink, the only part impacted is in the symbol lookup process, but
>> it were broken, nothing would work.
>>
>> carmelo
>>
>>>>
>>>>>> -mike
>>>>>>
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