I'm just a simple admin, can anyone explain this to me?

[Matt Valites]

Hello all, 

Warning! This may be a stupid question....

We are developing hardware and software software, the software team has
been happily using Debian Woody (3.0) for the last 6 months.  We decided
on deb, because it was based on gcc-3.  
At this point I am attempting to setup tools for the hardware folks,
there are some issues. The tools were tested/developed with redhat
6.2...  The error message I get is attached bellow, but as far as I can
tell the resulting binary works.  I would like to understand what this
error message is, if it is indeed a problem, and how, perhaps I can get
rid of it.  As the subject hints, I've not often had to deal with
problems like this, and ld has been something of a magic box to me.



ld -version for the redhat box:
GNU ld 2.9.5
Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
  Supported emulations:
   elf_i386
   i386linux

ld -version under Woody (snapshot as of 01/02)
$ ld -version 
GNU ld version 2.11.92.0.12.3 20011121 Debian/GNU Linux
GNU ld version 2.11.92.0.12.3 20011121 Debian/GNU Linux
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty

Error message from Debian box:
1 of 1 modules done
Invoking loader...
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/v231295NrI_d.o: bad relocation section name `.rela.text'
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/v231299zOJ_1_d.o: bad relocation section name `.rela.text'
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