Re: BFD internal error while compiling lapack

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 02:45:55PM -0500, Glen W. Mabey wrote:
> I am using binutils version 2.16.1cvs20060413-1 from debian sarge, and

Hmm, I wonder what debian have done to binutils?  You probably should
report this problem to them if it persists.

> ar cr ../lapack_LINUX.a zbdsqr.o zgbbrd.o zgbcon.o zgbequ.o zgbrfs.o
> 
> < snip the listing of a whole bunch more .o files >
> 
> BFD: BFD 2.16.91 20060413 Debian GNU/Linux internal error, aborting at 
> ../../bfd/elfcode.h line 190 in bfd_elf32_swap_symbol_in

This error means that a symbol has an st_shndx field equal to 0xffff,
but no SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX section was found.

ELF symbols normally only use 16-bit section indices.  0xffff should
only occur if the object has more than 64k sections.  I think that is
unlikely for lapack, so the error is probably due to some sort of file
corruption.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre