299051 - Link failure on Alpha Linux: pc-relative relocation against dynamic symbol $invoke_copy_to_stack..ng

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[falk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux alpha; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050610 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux alpha; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050610 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-3)

[...]
c++ -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy
-Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -pedantic -mieee -fshort-wchar -pthread
-pipe  -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -O -fPIC -shared -Wl,-h -Wl,libxpcom_core.so -o
libxpcom_core.so  nsCOMPtr.o nsComponentManagerUtils.o nsDebug.o
nsGenericFactory.o nsIInterfaceRequestorUtils.o nsMemory.o nsTraceRefcnt.o
nsWeakReference.o nsGREGlue.o nsXPComInit.o nsStringAPI.o      
-Wl,--whole-archive ../../dist/lib/libxpcomds_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxpcomio_s.a
../../dist/lib/libxpcomcomponents_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxpcomthreads_s.a
../../dist/lib/libxpcomproxy_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxpcombase_s.a
../../dist/lib/libxptcall.a ../../dist/lib/libxptinfo.a ../../dist/lib/libxpt.a
../../dist/lib/libxptcmd.a ../../dist/lib/libstring_s.a  -Wl,--no-whole-archive
 -L../../dist/lib -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -lpthread -ldl -ldl -lm     
/usr/bin/ld: ../../dist/lib/libxptcmd.a(xptcinvoke_linux_alpha.o): pc-relative
relocation against dynamic symbol $invoke_copy_to_stack..ng
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [libxpcom_core.so] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/src/mozilla-2005.06.28/xpcom/build'

Newer gccs omit unused static functions. This breaks the XPCOM wrapper, which
tries to invoke a static function from an asm behind gcc's back.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build "browser" CVS head on Alpha Linux with newer gccs (>=3.4 should do).
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Comment 1

[falk]

Attachment: Patch

Comment 2

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Comment on attachment 187540 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch

sr+a=shaver.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Fixed on trunk for 1.8b3: thanks Falk.