From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Fri Jul  9 22:51:34 1999
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 09 Jul 1999 23:51:34 +0200
Subject: "ld: bfd assertion fail" making eda.so on Linux (Redhat 6.0)
In-Reply-To: Martin Maechler's message of "Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:05:28 +0200"
References: <199907091605.SAA12966@sophie.ethz.ch>
Message-ID: <x2oghlxzix.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

> I've (remote) access to a new Linux system which has some flavor of Rehat
> installed.
> 
> Compiling R-0.64.2 fails -- at the end when  eda.so should be made.
.....> 
> mkellers{maechler}425% gcc --version
> egcs-2.91.66
> mkellers{maechler}426% ld --version
> GNU ld 2.9.1
> Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
> the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
>   Supported emulations:
>    elf_i386
>    i386linux
> 
> ------------------
> 
> I'm guessing that the  gcc/ld/library combination hasn't been 
> installed/configured properly... 
> ???

Or hardware. I've been running that combination for a couple of
months on my home machine and since yesterday on the work machine,
including a compile from scratch of the official 0.64.2 as late as
today (the old binary broke due to the __setfpucw silliness).

But first check the install with 

rpm -V egcs binutils 

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"ld: bfd assertion fail" making eda.so on Linux (Redhat 6.0)
Peter Dalgaard BSA