Would it be worthwhile to try and turn off TNTC? I don't know which section info tables live in without TNTC, but if it were to move info tables into a separate section this might help.
On 16 September 2010 04:16, Ben Lippmeier <b...@ouroborus.net> wrote: > >>> I've been poking through the source of MacOS ld, and the header file >>> /usr/include/mach-o/reloc.h mentioned in the original ticket. From >>> what I understand, the field that is overflowing is the offset from >>> the start of the section (text or data) to the thing that is being >>> relocated. The field is only 24bits long, which limits the >>> relocatable contents of each section to 16MB. The field is not the >>> offset between the source and target symbols, so reordering modules >>> won't help. >> >> -fPIC should have helped by eliminating relocations from the text and data >> sections. Very Strange. Does the dynamic version of the ghc package link >> without errors? > > So it looks like the real problem is the total size of the text section in > the resulting library, not the number of relocations needed. > > I haven't tried the dynamic version yet. The build system wants to make the > static one first. I did get a > > -rw-r--r-- 1 benl staff 56357392 15 Sep 17:19 libHSghc-6.13.20100914.a > > though. > > Ben. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Cvs-ghc mailing list > Cvs-ghc@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc > -- If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands. _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
