Thread: SPARC Solaris 11.1 GCC Comp Error: relocation error: R_SPARC_GOTDATA_HIX22

Hello All,

First post so please bear with me .

I have a compilation error (see below), on some but not all of our C programs.

The server is a T4-2 64b SPARC Solaris 11.1 server and we are using gcc 4.5.2. We are also using third-party Unify Dataserver C libraries. It's a new server which I'm failing badly to setup

I'm not sure what the error is referring to and I'm struggling to understand the small amounts of references to it on the internet when I do a search!

:!make -f makefile.gcc brsect
Linking Objects brsect.o reglib.o bsgdef.o bsglib.o
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_GOTDATA_HIX22: file brsect.o: symbol sysdata: value 0x3cd2b5 does not fit
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_GOTDATA_HIX22: file brsect.o: symbol sysdata: value 0x3cd2b5 does not fit
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_GOTDATA_HIX22: file brsect.o: symbol strsecttots: value 0x3cd2b4 does not fit
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_GOTDATA_HIX22: file brsect.o: symbol sysdata: value 0x3cd2b5 does not fit
.....

Can anyone point me in the right direction:
Is it a coding error?
gcc config error?
Missing gcc passed argument?
third-party software error?
OS error?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

Regards
Adrian

Really hard to tell without seeing the make file and code. This post seems to suggest some sort of gcc "config" issue, specifically that you build the object files incorrectly and the linker can't link them correctly. You should have make print out all the commands it runs too, so you can see for certain exactly what options are being used for the compile and link steps.