[syslinux] tftp-hpa 5.0 fails to build on mips

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/03/2010 05:20 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> recently, tftp-hpa has started to fail to build on mips and mipsel with
> the following error:
> 
> ---snip---
> [...]
> make -C  tftpd
> [...]
> gcc -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
> -Wnested-externs -Winline -Wwrite-strings -Wundef -Wshadow
> -Wsign-compare -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -I/build/buildd/tftp-hpa-5.0
> -c remap.c
> gcc -Wl,-z,defs tftpd.o recvfrom.o misc.o remap.o ../common/libcommon.a
> -lwrap -lnsl  /build/buildd/tftp-hpa-5.0/lib/libxtra.a  -o tftpd
> /usr/bin/ld.real: non-dynamic relocations refer to dynamic symbol
> __progname@@GLIBC_2.0
> /usr/bin/ld.real: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> [...]
> ---snap---
> 
> The full buildlogs are available at:
> https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=tftp-hpa;ver=5.0-10;arch=mips;stamp=1261015828
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=tftp-hpa;ver=5.0-10;arch=mipsel;stamp=1261755055
> 
> 
> Any help to fix it would be welcome.
> 

This really sounds like a glibc problem.  I don't use the symbol
__progname anywhere.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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