Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 17:32:35 -0700 From: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> To: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ar: error: libclang.a: 'ParseDecl.o': section header table goes past EOF Message-ID: <afqMIyNQGtJpRQGS@www.zefox.net> In-Reply-To: <2c2ab68d-83eb-4b6d-996d-10c2169a2165@yahoo.com> References: <afoDUSr7xeYIeL64@www.zefox.net> <2c2ab68d-83eb-4b6d-996d-10c2169a2165@yahoo.com>
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On Tue, May 05, 2026 at 11:37:12AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote: > On 5/5/26 07:48, bob prohaska wrote: > > A Pi2B (armv7) is failing buildworld with: > > > > Building static clang library > > ar: error: libclang.a: 'ParseDecl.o': section header table goes past the end of > > the file: e_shoff = 0x131190 > > That error message can happen for the file content being corrupted. One > form of corruption can be truncated because of running out of file > system space. But there can be many others. Failed writes or later > read-back problems are possibilities. Bad RAM content that was written > out could be involved. > > Did you check the console output/log for any messages that might have > been from the time frame(s) for the file generation or read-back? > > > *** [libclang.a] Error code 1 > > .... > > make[4]: stopped making "all" in /usr/src/lib/clang/libclang > > .ERROR_TARGET='libclang.a' > > .ERROR_META_FILE='/usr/obj/usr/src/arm.armv7/tmp/obj-tools/lib/clang/libclang/li > > bclang.a.meta' > > .MAKE.LEVEL='4' > > ............ > > > > /usr/src was updated 5/4/26. > > > > Re-running git pull reports: > > Updating 8e8d87856241..9f2ad7c09709 > > and it looks as if only sbin and sys > > files have changed. > > > > I'll run a make cleandir and try again. If there are > > other things to try please let me know. > > There are a rather wide range of possibilities. If it turns out to not > be readily reproducible, then the details may never be known. It seems to be quite reproducible. After two runs of make cleandir and a git pull (which did find updates) the error repeats. Thanks for reading, suggestions welcome! bob prohaskahome | help
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