unable to compile: unrecognized relocation 0x2a in section text

gcc ld binutils
Gi Yeon Shin picture Gi Yeon Shin · Oct 10, 2018 · Viewed 9.4k times · Source

I have received an error message when compiled "make"

$ make
g++ -fopenmp  -o lang.test main.o -I../../../include/Lheader -I../../../include -L../../../lib/ -llmi -lblas -lboost_regex -lpthread -lleveldb
/usr/bin/ld: ../../../lib//liblmi.a(LMInterface.o): unrecognized relocation (0x2a) in section `.text'
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I cannot find any solution for above problem.

GCC version and ld version are like these:

$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.1-2ubuntu1~14.04) 5.4.1 20160904
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


$ ld --version
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.24
Copyright 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a later version.
This program has absolutely no warranty.

How to fix this compile problem?

Answer

Florian Weimer picture Florian Weimer · Oct 10, 2018

Relocation 42 on x86-64 is R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX. These relocations are used for optimizations implemented in binutils 2.26 and later.

You will either need to upgrade your binutils version, or re-compile the library you want to use with your current toolchain version.

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