bfd 2.12 internal error: aborting in merge.c on overlapping sections

[Manuel Kountz]

hello,

ld told me to tell you. here we go.

when bootstrapping gcc-3.1.1, the build process bails out when trying to make
`libjava.la'; here's the error message

 /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: section .debug_str [00000000 -> 0017269f] 
                                      overlaps section .hash [00000094 -> 
00020457] 
 /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: BFD 2.12 internal error, 
                                      aborting at merge.c line 944 in 
_bfd_merged_section_offset

 /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: Please report this bug.

 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

no, you certainly don't want me to extract and copy the 4kb command line
leading to this. it happens when finally linking libjava, i guess.

this also happens with binutils-2.12.1:

 /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: section .debug_str [00000000 -> 001726a6] 
                                      overlaps section .hash [00000094 -> 
0002044f]
 /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: BFD 2.12.1 internal error, 
                                      aborting at 
../../binutils-2.12.1/bfd/merge.c line 947 
                                      in _bfd_merged_section_offset

 /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: Please report this bug.

 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

and also when making libjava.la.

i'm running linux kernel 2.4.18, glibc 2.2.5, all on an athlon xp machine.


hth

  ..manú..