Re: [Gnewsense-dev] icecat ftbfs with "relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_TLS_GD against `gTLSIsMainThread'"

[Karl Goetz]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:49:32 +0000
Zhang Le <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 08:59 Sun 07 Mar     , Zhang Le wrote:
> > On 08:25 Fri 05 Mar     , Karl Goetz wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > Trying to build icecat 3.6 on metad/mipsel it fails after almost
> > > 290 minutes with the following message:

> > > relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_TLS_GD against
> > > `gTLSIsMainThread' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]:
> > > *** [libxul.so] Error 1

> > > I have seen two dead threads on this subject [1][2], so does
> > > anyone here have a suggestion as to the cause/fix? Is updating
> > > binutils the fix?
> > > 
> > > [1]
> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg07842.html
> > > [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gnuzilla/1376
> > > 
> > 
> > I have made some progress here:
> > http://old.nabble.com/R_MIPS_TLS_GD-reloc-overflow-when-linking-%3E%3Dxulrunner-1.9.1.5-td26755056.html
> > 
> > I will try binutils-2.20.1 now to see if the problem still exists.
> 
> Same error even binutils-2.20.1 is used.

Shame, thanks for investigating though.
kk

> 
> Still got to see what causes this problem.
> 
> Zhang, Le


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