objcopy issues on Solaris

[David Holmes]

Hi Matthias,

On 28/04/2017 7:21 PM, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
>
> Hello, we are facing problems with gobjcopy on Solaris 10 x86_64.
> When processing libjvm.so (product build) with FDS and separated debug-infos we are getting :
>
> objcopy: libjvm.debuginfo: Not enough room for program headers, try linking with -N
>
> It looks like we are running into this (or a similar) problems :
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7165598
>
> As recommended in those bugs :
>
>   x86
>   https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8034005
>
>   (and similar Sparc issue)
>   https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8033602
>
> We are using objcopy from binutils-2.28 (downloaded and built ourselves from standard binutils gnu.org page)
> and still get the mentioned error.
>
> In the OpenJDK version checks, 2.21 seems to be needed minimum,
> the comments in version check says "objcopy prior to 2.21.1 on solaris is broken and is not usable.".
>
> Could you tell us the exact version of  objcopy / gobjcopy  you are using in 8 and 9 on Solaris  to
> process the debuginfo ?
> And where do you get the gobjcopy from?

GNU objcopy (GNU Binutils) 2.21.1

developer/gnu-binutils at 2.21.1-0.175.1.0.0.24.0

This is a Solaris 11u1 package.

David
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> Thanks, Richard and Matthias
>