Fwd: Systemtap smoke test fails on Ubuntu Server LTS 14.04.1 (Utopic)

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

> I install systemtap on my Ubuntu [14.10] server using apy-get or build it
> straight from systemtap's git repo, all looks fine. However, when
> executing a simple smoke test, I get following errors:
> [...]
> "/tmp/stapqyvuQN/stap_fed5d5a9ebf742dd24a5b0fcc8155bb5_1527_src.c" using
> 206536virt/185616res/6312shr/180084data kb, in 10usr/0sys/4real ms.
> ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.24.90.20141014 internal error,
> aborting at ../../bfd/elf-eh-frame.c line 1727 in
> _bfd_elf_write_section_eh_frame
>
> ld: Please report this bug.
> [...]

It's almost certainly a bug, and not in systemtap but in in the lower
level gcc/gas/binutils toolchain.  Try "stap --vp 0004 -k -p4 ...",
and archive the resulting /var/tmp/stapXXXX directory.  The .o file
and the gcc/etc. invocation command line should help binutils hackers
track this one down.

- FChE