[Bug 423756] Re: ld: internal error _bfd_merged_section_offset

[Dan Kegel]

It happened a few more times overnight, but doesn't happen 100% of the
time.

This started happening when I started running
  make all examples_noinst -j4
instead of
  make all -j4
The Makefile is generated by cmake.
Coincidentally, I started seeing cmake's progress percentage going above 100%.
Discussing this on http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2014-June/057897.html
somebody mentioned that cmake-generated makefiles behave badly
when invoked with multiple targets and -j.  Sure enough,  I see the target in
question being invoked twice.

So in my case this is probably a cmake bug, and in other cases, it may be a
poorly written Makefile problem, a disk error, or who knows what.

Let's let this bug stay closed.  I'll probably file a cmake bug report
when I know more.

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Title:
  ld: internal error  _bfd_merged_section_offset

Status in “binutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: binutils

  I got this error while linking a library, the next attempt to link the
  same library worked:

  /usr/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.18.93.20081009 internal
  error, aborting at ../../bfd/merge.c line 873 in
  _bfd_merged_section_offset

  /usr/bin/ld: Please report this bug.
  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 8.10
  Release:	8.10

  $ apt-cache policy binutils
  binutils:
    Installed: 2.18.93.20081009-0ubuntu1
    Candidate: 2.18.93.20081009-0ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 2.18.93.20081009-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Dependencies:
   libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1ubuntu12
   zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12ubuntu1
   gcc-4.3-base 4.3.2-1ubuntu12
   findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
   libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: binutils 2.18.93.20081009-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/real/RealPlayer
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: binutils
  Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i686

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