Weird problems when upgrading to 2.17

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Sat Jul 1 02:16:00 GMT 2006


On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:49:29AM +0200, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> Alan Modra wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:58:22AM +0200, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> >>Alan Modra wrote:
> >>>On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 04:56:43PM +0200, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> >>>> powerpc-eabi-ld: error: no memory region specified for
> >>>> loadable section `.rela.dyn'.
> >>>Did you mean to build a shared library or a dynamic executable?  If so,
> >>>you might try adding "-z nocombreloc" to the linker command line.
> >>>
> >>No, I want to build a static executable that runs from flash.
> >
> >That's what I expected.  So how did the linker think you needed dynamic
> >relocations?  I think this can only happen if you pass -shared or -pie
> >to the linker, or link against shared libs.
> 
> I really don't know. I use the exact same makefile and the exact same 
> source code. The only difference is that I use ld 2.17 instead of 2.16.1 
> to build the thing.

Can we see the linker command line?  Better still, can you package up
all the object files involved in the link so someone can debug the
problem?

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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