--image-base options of ld broken?

[kirbyzhou]

I use autoconf/automake with libtool to build my shared-library demo. libtool leads g to pass --image-base option to ld, but it seems broken no mater what the actual addres is given.

SUA version : 6.0
libtool version: 1.5.22

$ g -shared *.o -o libkfoo.so.0.0.0 -Wl,--image-base=1b3c0000
$ ./lt-demo
./lt-demo: error in loading shared libraries
/dev/fs/C/Users/KirbyZhou/suawork/attest/.libs/libkfoo.so: system cannot load image

$ g -shared *.o -o libkfoo.so.0.0.0 -Wl,--image-base=1b3c0000
$ ./lt-demo
./lt-demo: error in loading shared libraries
/dev/fs/C/Users/KirbyZhou/suawork/attest/.libs/libkfoo.so: system cannot load image

$ g -shared *.o -o libkfoo.so.0.0.0
$ ./lt-demo
v:100

[rodney]

You have to prefix the number given to the '--image-base' with "0x".

[kirbyzhou]

it works!
Thanks, but why the libtool doesnot take "0x"? Below is what the libtool do:

g -shared .libs/libimpl.o -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -L/opt/gcc.3.3/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-interix3/3.3 -L/opt/gcc.3.3/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-interix3/3.3/../../../../i586-pc-interix3/lib -L/opt/gcc.3.3/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-interix3/3.3/../../.. -Wl,-h,libkfoo.so.0 -Wl,--image-base,`/usr/lib/print_base .libs/libkfoo.so.0.0.0` -o .libs/libkfoo.so.0.0.0

and /usr/lib/print_base prints "10000000" without "0x".

[rodney]

Sorry, my error for /usr/lib/print_base.
I'll post a correction and then post here after.

[rodney]

The update (1.5.22.1) can now be installed ("pkg_update -L libtool").

[steveh]

Is it possible this will fix the strange issues we where looking at a while back with libs and exe refusing to run Rodney?

[rodney]

Could be... I usually post any fixes I have for packages. But clearly I made
an internal fix and it didn't get into the package. So, yeah, give it another
whirl if you have time.

I did find out when I've been trying to pack shared libraries into the user space
as tightly as possible that if the start address of the image base is not right
then a loading error will happen with either the named library or the first one
it depends on. But I remember looking at objdump output and thought it
looked right (though maybe I'm not remembering right).

[steveh]

WINNER!!!

That fixed it Rodney so must have been the cause all along. Thanks for all your hard work again Rodney.

[rodney]

You're welcome.
BTW: The package for Interix 6.0 is fine and didn't need to get updated.