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Date:      Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:29:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Mark Abene <phiber@radicalmedia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: alphalinux object files and freebsd...
Message-ID:  <14761.34782.124696.752369@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000818005817.E3795@radicalmedia.com>
References:  <20000818005817.E3795@radicalmedia.com>

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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

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