I had this same problem attempting to compile gcc 4.1.1 on Red Hat RHEL
4, and it was cured by downloading binutils-2.17.50.0.3.tar.gz from
ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils
However, be aware that (it appears) the new ld executable MUST be
installed as /usr/bin/ld, as this path is hardwired into the "collect-
ld" Bourne-shell script.
Alan Thompson
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Re: BFD error
* From: Kai Ruottu <karuottu at mbnet dot fi>
* To: Phil taddei <phillyla at lycos dot com>
* Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
* Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:03:31 +0300
* Subject: Re: BFD error
* References: <20060705211724.8A829E5BC7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Phil taddei kirjoitti:
I had the following error while building gcc-4.4.4 on a Redhat
Linux system, i686 pc:
Seems to be "gcc-4.1.1" though...
/usr/bin/ld: BFD 2.14.90.0.4 20030523 internal error, aborting
at ../../bfd/elf32-i386.c line 2377 in elf_i386_relocate_section
The binutils-2.14.90.0.4 can really be "too old" to be used with
gcc-4.1.1.
Am I doing something wrong?
Maybe, I think giving at least your GCC configure command could help in
solving the problem...
I also updated the binutils. Still got the same error.
The current binutils version for Linux is "2.17.50.0.2" at:
ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils
and it is assumed that you updated to this "current" version or at least
to the last "2.16.91" one.
Anyway your "updated" is a little fuzzy, maybe it means a "2.15.94" one
or something....
