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Unsupported relocs on Alpha, Was: BFD 2.16.1 "assertion failure" and "internal error"

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Fri Jul 22 12:08:00 GMT 2005 
Hi Dan,

> I didn't install gcc, so the most I know about it is:
> 
> bash-2.04$ gcc -v
> Reading specs from 
> /usr/local/packages/gcc-3.4.0/lib/gcc/alphaev68-dec-osf5.1/3.4.0/specs

Ah - well that made things a little clearer.  I tried to build a 
toolchain configured for "alphaev68-dec-osf5.1" but I failed.  GAS and 
LD were not built for a start.  Then I had a look at the top level 
configure file and found this:

   alpha*-dec-osf*)
     # ld works, but does not support shared libraries.
     # newlib is not 64 bit ready.  I'm not sure about fileutils.
     # gas doesn't generate exception information.
     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs gas ld fileutils target-newlib 
target-libgloss"
     ;;

So basically the GNU binutils do not support the particular GCC and G++ 
toolchain that you have.  I am guessing that it is the missing shared 
library support that is responsible for those unsupported relocs.

I am not an ALPHA/OSF expert so I am not going to be able to implement 
the missing functionality, sorry.  You could have a go yourself if you 
like...

Cheers
   Nick
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