RE: rela.dyn section

["Smith, Stephen \(SWCOE\)" <Stephen dot Smith at honeywell dot com>]

Per suggestions about this problem, 

I checked and I am not linking against any shared libraries and none of
the object files (or any of the object file in the static libraries) are
linked with -fpic or -fPIC.  Adding -static to the linker line doesn't
seem to help either.

I guess the only choice is to change the linker script.

sps

-----Original Message-----
From: Smith, Stephen (SWCOE) 
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:46 AM
To: 'binutils@sourceware.org'
Subject: rela.dyn section

Our group recently upgraded from 2.10 to 2.17 of the binutils package
and now we are getting the following error message:

/usr/local/powerpc-motorola-elf/bin/powerpc-motorola-elf-ld \
   --output=startup.exe.with-symbols  --script ../../code/startup.x \
   start.o mpc8240.o mpc107.o program_env.o vga.o ns87308.o ns16550.o \
   pci.o font8x16.o libmonitor.a libgdb.a libansi.a \
              -L/desk/ppc/lib/gcc -lgcc
/usr/local/powerpc-motorola-elf/bin/powerpc-motorola-elf-ld: error: no
memory region specified for loadable section `.rela.dyn'
make[1]: *** [startup.exe] Error 1

I then compiled all the object files to assembly (including the ones
that are in the static libraries (*.a) and grep'ed the resultant files:

$ grep section *asm | grep dyn
$ grep section *asm | grep rel
$

I checked for the sections using a grep and there are plenty of .text,
.data, ... sections but none of the above.

What is the problem?  Why do I need to define the section?  Startup.exe
is designed to be burned into rom.  Should .rela.dyn be part of rom or
part of ram?