On 26 Oct 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > The fix is to get rid of those sections, viz:
> > .text (.) : {
> > _text = .;
> > *(.text);
> > *(.text.*);
> > _etext = .;
> > _rodata = .;
> > *(.rodata)
> > _erodata = .;
> > _data = .;
> > *(.data)
> > _edata = .;
> > }
> >
> > Builds with no errors, and places all the pieces correctly.
>
> Except the virtual addresses of variables in the data
> section are wrong and the code won't run.
Well, this one I have not tried. But a very similar fix on the alpha did
work.
Oh, I see what you mean, sorry.
OK, don't know what to do.
> With ld 2.10.90 I don't have any problems ld --version.
that same version, same bfd library, breaks on alpha.
> It seriously looks like simply having new enough tools might be
> the solution. Every time I have tracked it that was the problem/difference.
In catani's case the tools are NEWER, and they went from working to broken
:-(
I'd rather get to the point that we can work with any version of ld, that
may be impossible however.
ron
