From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 103455 invoked by alias); 18 Dec 2019 19:40:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 103415 invoked by uid 89); 18 Dec 2019 19:40:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy= X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (209.51.188.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:40:37 +0000 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48998) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ihfBN-0003DV-20; Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:40:29 -0500 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4998 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ihfBM-0007tK-6s; Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:40:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:40:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83eex12zj1.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Christian Biesinger CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: (message from Christian Biesinger on Wed, 18 Dec 2019 13:12:10 -0600) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Link to -lssp when available (fixes mingw build) References: <20191218181413.128412-1-cbiesinger@google.com> <83h81x323k.fsf@gnu.org> <83fthh310d.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-12/txt/msg00791.txt.bz2 > From: Christian Biesinger > Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 13:12:10 -0600 > Cc: gdb-patches > > > Thanks, I think it's a good solution for one more reason: searching > > the Internet for related issues suggests that Cygwin doesn't package a > > static libssp library, so a static link against that might be > > impossible for a Cygwin build of GDB. (Please take that with a grain > > of salt, as I don't use Cygwin and know very little about it; what > > I've read on the Internet might be outdated.) > > My cygwin installation does have a static ssp: > /usr/lib/gcc/i586-pc-msdosdjgpp/5.4.0/libssp.a > /usr/lib/gcc/i586-pc-msdosdjgpp/5.4.0/libssp_nonshared.a > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/7.4.0/libssp.a > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/7.4.0/libssp.dll.a > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/7.4.0/libssp_nonshared.a > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.4.0/libssp.a > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.4.0/libssp.dll.a > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.4.0/libssp_nonshared.a > /usr/lib/libssp.a OK, so what I've read _was_ indeed outdated. > But I'm not sure that for cygwin this matters as much anyway. Neither am I. > (If libssp_nonshared.a existed on my "native" mingw that would be > great, but sadly it doesn't...) Not sure I follow. I do have libssp_nonshared.a in my MinGW installation, although it's mingw.org's MinGW, not MinGW64. But the above list indicates you also have the nonshared version, no?