(This is on Gentoo Linux AMD64, with GCC 4.5.1, vanilla shared-mime-info-0.90.tar.bz2 downloaded from http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info without any patches applied.) Trying to build shared-mime-info-0.90: ./configure make -j2 results in: gcc -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -o update-mime-database update_mime_database-update-mime-database.o -lxml2 -lglib-2.0 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: can not read symbols: File truncated /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.20.1.20100303 internal error, aborting at /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20.1-r1/work/binutils-2.20.1/bfd/merge.c line 872 in _bfd_merged_section_offset /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: Please report this bug. collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
This is a bug in your binutils, it seems. Please report the problem to Gentoo.
I don't think so, it fails randomly with different -j flags, for me -j2 doesn't print anything about binutils, but this: $ make -j2 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -MT update_mime_database-update-mime-database.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/update_mime_database-update-mime-database.Tpo -c -o update_mime_database-update-mime-database.o `test -f 'update-mime-database.c' || echo './'`update-mime-database.c Making check in . make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/shared-mime-info-0.90' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -MT update_mime_database-update-mime-database.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/update_mime_database-update-mime-database.Tpo -c -o update_mime_database-update-mime-database.o `test -f 'update-mime-database.c' || echo './'`update-mime-database.c update-mime-database.c: In function ‘main’: update-mime-database.c:3579:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c:3679:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c: In function ‘main’: update-mime-database.c:3579:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c:3679:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c: In function ‘write_magic_children’: update-mime-database.c:1786:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c:1790:10: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c: In function ‘write16’: update-mime-database.c:1012:8: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c: In function ‘write_namespaces’: update-mime-database.c:1946:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c: In function ‘write_magic_children’: update-mime-database.c:1786:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_resultupdate-mime-database.c: In function ‘write_subclass’: update-mime-database.c:1790:10: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_resultupdate-mime-database.c:1964:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c: In function ‘write_aliases’: update-mime-database.c:2005:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c: In function ‘write16’: update-mime-database.c:1012:8: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c: In function ‘write_types’:update-mime-database.c: In function ‘write_namespaces’: update-mime-database.c:2036:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_resultupdate-mime-database.c:1946:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c: In function ‘write_one_icon’: update-mime-database.c:2053:8: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c: In function ‘write_subclass’: update-mime-database.c:1964:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c: In function ‘write_aliases’: update-mime-database.c:2005:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c: In function ‘write_types’: update-mime-database.c:2036:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result update-mime-database.c: In function ‘write_one_icon’: update-mime-database.c:2053:8: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result mv -f .deps/update_mime_database-update-mime-database.Tpo .deps/update_mime_database-update-mime-database.Po gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -MT test_subclassing-test-subclassing.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/test_subclassing-test-subclassing.Tpo -c -o test_subclassing-test-subclassing.o `test -f 'test-subclassing.c' || echo './'`test-subclassing.c mv -f .deps/update_mime_database-update-mime-database.Tpo .deps/update_mime_database-update-mime-database.Po mv: cannot stat `.deps/update_mime_database-update-mime-database.Tpo': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [update_mime_database-update-mime-database.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make -C po shared-mime-info.pot make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/shared-mime-info-0.90/po' make[1]: `shared-mime-info.pot' is up to date. make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/shared-mime-info-0.90/po' gcc -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -o update-mime-database update_mime_database-update-mime-database.o -lxml2 -lglib-2.0 mv -f .deps/test_subclassing-test-subclassing.Tpo .deps/test_subclassing-test-subclassing.Po make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/shared-mime-info-0.90' make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Created attachment 40820 [details] [review] Fix parallel make bug in Makefile.am Patch to fix the issue
commit 68e31f61f5e50e5222bc05437d1123e932922796 Author: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Dec 6 19:46:57 2010 +0000 Fix parallel build https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32127
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