What does unexpected reloc type 0x03 mean?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 9:01 AM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 06:10:04AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 5:47 AM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 05:27:58AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > > On ARM-32 I'm experiencing a failure when running self tests after a
> > > > build. The error is:
> > > >
> > > >     unexpected reloc type 0x03
> > > >
> > > > I see the same error with 'LD_DEBUG=all ./cryptest v', but I still
> > > > don't know what it means.
> > >
> > > In this particular case it means you have a dynamic R_ARM_REL32
> > > relocation, a type that ld.so is not prepared to relocate.
> >
> > Thanks Alan.
> >
> > Searching for "dynamic R_ARM_REL32" "ld.so" finds two results. One is
> > the Linux ld.so man page, and the other is the Solaris man page.
> > Neither are very helpful.
> >
> > What is the fix?
>
> Find the offending dynamic relocation and trace it back to the source
> that generated it.  My guess is you'll find some non-PIC assembly or a
> C/C++ file that wasn't compiled with -fPIC.

Oh, thanks.

Yeah, we've been fighting Autotools to recognize our project as C++
and build everything with PIC. The latest bug seems to be ignoring
"LT_INIT([pic-only])".

I don't know why folks use Autotools. It seems to be a massive
collection of bugs that never get fixed. They just fester.

Jeff