From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 17 15:32:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26EFF37B401 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:32:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-106-179.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.106.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9016D43F65 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:32:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D6B566B60 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:32:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 22A0C161D; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:32:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:32:27 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: ld: subsegment exceeds 64K Message-ID: <20030117233227.GG23241@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="df+09Je9rNq3P+GE" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --df+09Je9rNq3P+GE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline It's fairly common on alpha to get the following error message from ld: /usr/libexec/elf/ld: platon.o: .got subsegment exceeds 64K (size 112840) /usr/libexec/elf/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: File format not recognized *** Error code 1 For example, here's a port that appears to do nothing more fancy that compiling a single fortran file: http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/alpha-4-latest/platon-2001.03.09.log It also regularly causes the kde build to break. Is there a fundamental architectural reason for this limitation, or is it a bug that can be fixed/worked around? Kris --df+09Je9rNq3P+GE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+KJKKWry0BWjoQKURAosbAJwILJcR/Exv2l1URHYeM4IdEl8GvgCgxpxN Pib2OsmIKCJV0rZdmltwdQ4= =/bfl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --df+09Je9rNq3P+GE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message