ld internal error: can't find got at relocation entry ...

[Geissler Gerd]

Dear collegues,

We are producing SW for a MIPS target machine. The development is done in a SUN 
Solaris and after successful production on SUN it will be produced on the MIPS 
target.

After an update of the source codes the sun production works quite fine but the 
production on the MIPS machine stops during linking and gives the reply: 

---------- begin ------------
/home/VIEW/REL_AGENT_V2.0_WD06_LOAD_09_FU/path1/om/int/lockclass-ews/locklib.a 
-lsocket -lnsl -lelf -ldl conf_spec.o lib_spec.o
ld: agent: system error: ld internal error: can't find local got at relocation 
entry [378845] in section .text of file /usr/tmp/ctmpoa002at
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake: *** [prelink] Error 1
----------- end --------------

We use a gnu compiler 2.95.2   and the linker of the MIPS machine


Updates have been done at 5 packages for this version of the target load. 

To get more info of the problem : 
- We started with the previous version and added package 1:  we got successful 
production.  :-)
- We added package 1 plus 2 :  we got the error as we get with all the updates 
entered      :-(
- we removed one code part in package 2 where a function has been declared that 
is not (yet) used / defined later on we get again a working production.

- We added package 3  to  the previous version  and got the error again  :-(

Can you give us a help / idea how to find out the problem - either in the 
linker or whereever ?  

Do we have to remove all new code lines and add them step by step for a 
production to get the errors out ? 
The error occurs about 2 hours (!) after production start. The successful 
priduction lasts abouit 2.5 hours at the MIPS machine.
(On SUN it lasts about 20 minutes.) 

Please send us (to me or one on my collegues in CC:) an idea that helps us 
finding and removing the problem.

Many thanks and 

Best regards

Gerd Geissler   

Siemens AG 
ICM N PG U RD E5 
Information & Communication Mobile 
Networks -  Product Generation 
UMTS Radio Development 

Hofmannstr. 51
D-81359 München

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