Re: ld: <...> internal error, aborting at arange-set.c line 202 in arange_set_new

["Patrick J. Volkerding" <volkerdi@slackware.com>]

Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For your information;
> I just test build Linus' tip of the kernel tree (HEAD at 
> 064922a805ec7aadfafdd27aa6b4908d737c3c1d) on a up-to-date 
> Slackware-current distro and hit this problem:
> 
> ...
>   GEN     .version
>   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>   UPD     include/linux/compile.h
>   CC      init/version.o
>   LD      init/built-in.o
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> ld: size of bfd_vma > size of splay_tree types
> ld: BFD (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.18.50.0.4.20080208 internal error, aborting 
> at arange-set.c line 202 in arange_set_new
> 
> ld: Please report this bug.

Hello all,

Slackware-current does not use binutils 2.18.50.0.4.20080208, but rather 
binutils-2.17.50.0.17.  We've run into a few unusual issues with newer 
binutils versions, so we tend to be rather cautious about having that 
package on the bleeding edge.

I'd be curious if using the binutils-2.17.50.0.17 package from 
slackware-current would avoid this problem, but also wanted to let 
people know that the system in question had a critical part of the 
toolchain replaced with something that didn't come from our set of packages.

Best regards,

Pat