From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Aug 27 14:29:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313F437B42C for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA27253; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:29:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA02025; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:29:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:29:25 -0400 (EDT) To: Mark Abene Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alphalinux object files and freebsd... In-Reply-To: <20000818005817.E3795@radicalmedia.com> References: <20000818005817.E3795@radicalmedia.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14761.34782.124696.752369@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Abene writes: > Greetings. I have a couple of small relocateable object files that were > built on AlphaLinux, for which I do not have the source. The objects make > up a library which along with some header files outline the calling convention. > > I want to be able to link these object files on FreeBSD/Alpha natively without > having to use the emulated alphalinux compiler tools. The objects are > elf64-alpha, however when I try to link the library (it's an ar archive), I > get a screen full of fatal "relocation truncated to fit: REFLONG blah" errors. > I've tried extracting the object files and objcopy'ing them (no args), but > I get the same errors. Is there some silly difference between elf64-alpha > relocateable objects created on AlphaLinux versus FreeBSD? > Odd. I've been linking Compaq's linux math library into FreeBSD objects with no problem on 4.1-RELEASE. How old is your installation. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message