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

[Zhang Le]

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:
> 
> Xrender -lfreetype -lfontconfig  -lz  -L/root/icecat-3.6-3.6/dist/lib -lplds4 
> -lplc4 -lnspr4 -lpthread -ldl -ldbus-glib-1 -ldbus-1 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 
>    -lX11  -lXext  -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lz -lfontconfig 
> -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0   -lgtk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 
> -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo 
> -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0   -lXt -lgthread-2.0 -lfreetype 
> -lz -lasound -ldl -lm
> ../../staticlib/components/libxpconnect.a(xpcjsruntime.o):/root/icecat-3.6-3.6/js/src/xpconnect/src/xpcjsruntime.cpp:499:
>  relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_TLS_GD against `gTLSIsMainThread'
> ../../staticlib/components/libxpconnect.a(xpcthreadcontext.o):/root/icecat-3.6-3.6/js/src/xpconnect/src/xpcthreadcontext.cpp:493:
>  relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_TLS_GD against `gTLSIsMainThread'
> ../../staticlib/components/libnecko.a(nsSocketTransportService2.o):/root/icecat-3.6-3.6/netwerk/base/src/nsSocketTransportService2.cpp:437:
>  relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_TLS_GD against `gTLSIsMainThread'
> ../../staticlib/components/libnecko.a(nsSocketTransportService2.o):/root/icecat-3.6-3.6/netwerk/base/src/nsSocketTransportService2.cpp:383:
>  relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_TLS_GD against `gTLSIsMainThread'
> ../../staticlib/components/libuconv.a(nsCharsetConverterManager.o):/root/icecat-3.6-3.6/intl/uconv/src/nsCharsetConverterManager.cpp:350:
>  relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_TLS_GD against `gTLSIsMainThread'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/icecat-3.6-3.6/toolkit/library'
> make[3]: *** [libs_tier_toolkit] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/icecat-3.6-3.6'
> make[2]: *** [tier_toolkit] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/icecat-3.6-3.6'
> make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/icecat-3.6-3.6'
> make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
> dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
> 
> 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.

Zhang, Le