arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.20.51.20100908 assertion fail ../../bfd/elf32-arm.c:12562

[Loïc Minier]

Binary package hint: binutils

Hi

with libfoo.c:
#include "libfoo.h"

#include <pthread.h>

int libfoo_run(void) {
    pthread_mutex_t m;

    return pthread_mutex_init(&m, NULL);
}

and libfoo.h:
int libfoo_run(void);

and using the armel cross toolchain under natty:
arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc -fPIC -c libfoo.c
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld -T arm-linux-gnueabi.ld -z defs -shared -o libfoo.so libfoo.o -lpthread
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.20.51.20100908 assertion fail ../../bfd/elf32-arm.c:12562
make: *** [ld] Erreur de segmentation

Cheers,

[Richard Sandiford (rsandifo)]

arm-linux-gnueabi.ld doesn't seem to be part of the linaro binutils package. Is it part of another ubuntu package, or is it local?

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> arm-linux-gnueabi.ld doesn't seem to be part of the linaro binutils
> package. Is it part of another ubuntu package, or is it local?

 Yes, it's in the binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi package

--
Loïc Minier

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

Oh sorry, I was confused; here's the file

[Richard Sandiford (rsandifo)]

Thanks, can reproduce.

The first-order problem is that -T replaces the default linker script, so it needs to specify everything that the default linker script would (except of course for any bits that you're deliberately removing). Attempting to link without any SECTIONS statements at all is unlikely to produce good results, if it works at all. Maybe the bug reporter realised this; I just thought I'd better point it out in case.

Still, I agree this is a bug either way. It's bad error recovery and a bad user interface if nothing else.

FWIW, I tried with:

SEARCH_DIR("/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib"); SEARCH_DIR("=/usr/local/lib"); SEARCH_DIR("=/lib"); SEARCH_DIR("=/usr/lib"); SEARCH_DIR("=/usr/local/lib"); SEARCH_DIR("=/lib"); SEARCH_DIR("=/usr/lib");
INSERT AFTER .text;

and got a "bad value" error, which is hardly good either.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

still seen with 2.22 and 2.23

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

still seen with 2.24 and 2.25

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

Ubuntu dropped the armel architecture; please report this issue upstream if you are still interested in it. closing as won't fix for Ubuntu.