[forwarded from http://bugs/debian.org/628951] seen on x86_64-linux-gnu, with trunk 20110523 and 20110602. linking liblinux2.6.18.so shows /usr/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.21.51.20110601 assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:12795 [...] this is the assert in elf_append_rela in the build log, the build continues, however in the extracted test case, I see a segfault files and link command at http://people.debian.org/~doko/tmp/ns3.xz
Please try the new binutils in CVS.
Fixed.