Re: -pie is broken on hppa

Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:54:55 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.hppa,gmane.linux.debian.ports.hppa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 11:44:13AM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > Could you try this patch?
> 
> I installed it last night.  svn works, gcc bootstraps and I haven't
> seen any other problems.  There was a problem building libjava with
> the getdents bug.
>

OK. I'll try to build a HEAD kernel and boot with an old glibc to see if
it fucks up. Is there a really easy testcase I can try to reproduce
this?

> > -	/* struct linux_dirent has longs, like 'unsigned long d_ino' which
> > -	 * almost definitely should be 'ino_t d_ino' but it's too late now */
> 
> This is my only concern.
> 

It should be fine, since all other compat arches have the same problem.