R_AARCH64_CALL26 Relocation Error on Ubuntu 18.04

[Richard Earnshaw]

On 01/03/2022 01:45, Ra T via Binutils wrote:
> Has anyone seen this problem on NVidia's L4T (based on Ubuntu 18.04) with a
> Jetson AGX Xavier?
> 
> I'm trying to compile Qt 5.15.8, and the opensource Chromium build
> (QtWebEngine) is failing with the error:
> 
> "relocation truncated to fit: R_AARCH64_CALL26 against symbol ... defined
> in .text section in /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6"
> 
> The symbols listed are gettimeofday@@GLIBC2.17 and ntohs@@GLIBC_2.17.
> 
> It seems similar to this bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243559
> 
> But I could not find a more recent bug.  L4T 32.6.1 is using binutils 2.30,
> g++ 7.5.
> 
> Sorry for newb questions, if this is the wrong mailing list let me know.
> 
> Regards,
> Rad

It's not a bug, the linker is telling you that the target of the call 
instruction is too far away from the instruction.  This can happen if 
your program or library contains too much compiled code.  It's most 
common when code is built without optimization.  You could also try 
building with -Os to reduce the amount of code generated.

If all else fails, you might need to partition your code into multiple 
shared libraries so that each is smaller and less than the limit imposed 
by the instruction set.

R.