site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com As Ned Flanders would say, I've got a dilly of a pickle. I'd love to hear your suggestions. I'm on Panther (10.3.9) with XCode 1.5. Things I've tried: Thanks a lot in advance. --Bob _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... The code base I'm trying to build first builds many (over a hundred) static libraries, then links 'em into an app. That link is erroring out with a bunch of errors (over a hundred) like this: ld: /foo.a(bar.o) relocation overflow for relocation entry 704 in section (__TEXT,__text) (displacement too large) I've googled and searched through Apple's list archives and I'm about ready to throw in the towel and blow a DTS incident, but if anyone reading this knows: (a) exactly what this means (b) how to diagnose it more specifically than a hundred basically-identical link errors (c) how to avoid the error For what it's worth: the vast majority of this code is cross-platform (compiles, links, and runs on Windows and Linux at least) and the Mac-specific code works well for other products in which it's used. As suggested in <http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-development/2001/Aug/ msg00213.html>, I've tried compiling all the sources with "-mlong_branch". This didn't work. As suggested in <http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-development/2001/Aug/ msg00244.html>, I've tried (dubiously) to create stub functions for _carbon_init() and _objcInit(). This didn't work. As suggested in <http://lists.apple.com/archives/unix-porting/2002/Apr/msg00149.html>, I've tried tweaking the stacksize ("limit stacksize"), even though this looks like a Jaguar problem and I'm on Panther. I couldn't get the environment variable for stacksize set above where Panther defaults it, and it didn't seem to have an effect. As suggested in <http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-development/2003/Dec/ msg00147.html>, I've tried building with "-mdynamic-no-pic". This didn't work. <http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-development/2001/May/ msg00620.html> suggests that data sizes bigger than 32MB won't work; hmmm. None of the individual libraries are larger than 32MB, but cumulatively they probably are. But if that's related, then why is the link failing for (as far as I can tell) all static libraries being linked? I don't think (although I could be wrong) that this is the issue. <http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwinos-users/2001/Oct/msg00209.html> suggests that a huge static array may be the problem. I haven't found a huge static array in this code, although it's possible one exists. No other compilers (including the gcc toolchain used for Linux builds) complains. Have I missed an obvious link flag or compile flag that will prevent this problem from occurring? (This is what I'm hoping for: a "magic incantation" that will effortlessly solve all my problems.) Or does anyone have any suggestions for another angle for me to investigate this? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com