runghc failing sometimes on Linux/ppc?

[Jens Petersen]

2009/5/2 Jens Petersen <petersen at haskell.org>:
> So I tried doing an unregisterised ppc build with:
>
> echo "GhcUnregisterised=YES" >> mk/build.mk
> echo "GhcWithNativeCodeGen=NO" >> mk/build.mk
> echo "SplitObjs=NO" >> mk/build.mk

Are these the right build config settings?

> but this failed with:
:
> Linking dist-stage2/build/ghc/ghc ...
:
> (.text+0x20): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 against symbol
> `__libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.0' defined in .glink section in
> /usr/lib/gcc/ppc64-redhat-linux/4.4.0/../../../../lib/crt1.o
> /usr/lib/gcc/ppc64-redhat-linux/4.4.0/crtbegin.o:(.fini+0x0):
> relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 against `.text'

I thought maybe it was a gcc44 issue, but similar with gcc43:

Building ghc-bin-6.10.2...
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Main.hs,
dist-stage2/build/ghc/ghc-tmp/Main.o )
Linking dist-stage2/build/ghc/ghc ...
/usr/lib/gcc/ppc64-redhat-linux/4.3.2/../../../../lib/crt1.o: In
function `_start':
(.text+0x20): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 against symbol
`__libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.0' defined in .glink section in
/usr/lib/gcc/ppc64-redhat-linux/4.3.2/../../../../lib/crt1.o
/usr/lib/gcc/ppc64-redhat-linux/4.3.2/crtbegin.o:(.fini+0x0):
relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 against `.text'
/usr/lib/gcc/ppc64-redhat-linux/4.3.2/crtend.o:(.init+0x0): relocation
truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 against `.text'
dist-stage2/build/ghc/ghc-tmp/Main.o: In function `r6Xf_entry':
ghc5050_0.hc:(.text+0x448): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24
against symbol `newCAF' defined in .text section in
/builddir/build/BUILD/ghc-6.10.2/rts/libHSrts.a(Storage.o)
dist-stage2/build/ghc/ghc-tmp/Main.o: In function `r6Xj_entry':
ghc5050_0.hc:(.text+0x5ac): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24
against symbol `newCAF' defined in .text section in
/builddir/build/BUILD/ghc-6.10.2/rts/libHSrts.a(Storage.o)
dist-stage2/build/ghc/ghc-tmp/Main.o: In function `r6Xn_entry':
ghc5050_0.hc:(.text+0x6dc): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24
against symbol `newCAF' defined in .text section in
/builddir/build/BUILD/ghc-6.10.2/rts/libHSrts.a(Storage.o)
dist-stage2/build/ghc/ghc-tmp/Main.o: In function `r6Xp_entry':
ghc5050_0.hc:(.text+0x7c4): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24
against symbol `newCAF' defined in .text section in
/builddir/build/BUILD/ghc-6.10.2/rts/libHSrts.a(Storage.o)
dist-stage2/build/ghc/ghc-tmp/Main.o: In function `r6Xr_entry':
ghc5050_0.hc:(.text+0x8ac): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24
against symbol `newCAF' defined in .text section in
/builddir/build/BUILD/ghc-6.10.2/rts/libHSrts.a(Storage.o)
dist-stage2/build/ghc/ghc-tmp/Main.o: In function `r6Xv_entry':
ghc5050_0.hc:(.text+0xbe8): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24
against symbol `newCAF' defined in .text section in
/builddir/build/BUILD/ghc-6.10.2/rts/libHSrts.a(Storage.o)
dist-stage2/build/ghc/ghc-tmp/Main.o: In function `Main_a13_entry':
ghc5050_0.hc:(.text+0xcd0): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24
against symbol `newCAF' defined in .text section in
/builddir/build/BUILD/ghc-6.10.2/rts/libHSrts.a(Storage.o)
dist-stage2/build/ghc/ghc-tmp/Main.o: In function `Main_a14_entry':
ghc5050_0.hc:(.text+0xdb8): additional relocation overflows omitted
from the output
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1333608

Any thoughts?

Jens