Crash in ld building tcl.

[Keith Harwood]

When building tcl8.4.4 make reports:
 gcc -pipe -rdynamic  tclAppInit.o -L/usr/src/tcl8.4.4/unix -ltcl8.4 -ldl    
-lieee -lm \
        -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -o tclsh
collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault], core dumped
/usr/bin/ld: BFD 2.13.2 assertion fail 
../../binutils-2.13.2/bfd/elf64-alpha.c:4663
make: *** [tclsh] Error 1

In spite of the message core is not dumped (or if it is, then it is dumped in 
some cunning place that only an Armenian carpet seller who has just won the 
Armenian Carpet Sellers Prize for Outstanding Cunning can find it).

Investigation shows that the problem arises when elf64_alpha_relocate_section
has an input section named `.debug_info' and an input_bfd named .../libieee.a.
It requires a section named `.rela.debug_info' and bfd_get_section_by_name 
can't find any such section. Later it finds a dynamic symbol with 
r_type==R_ALPHA_REFQUAD then barfs at BFD_ASSERT(srel != NULL).

Compiler is gcc 3.2.2 as patched in the Suse 8.1 Alpha pseudo-release.
Problem also occurs with gcc 3.2.1 unpatched.

Binutils is 2.13.1 with binutils-2.13.2.1-gprel32.patch. Problem also occurs 
with binutils-2.12.90.0.15 from Suse.

Libc is 2.3.1 unpatched. 

Investigating libieee.a and ieee-math.c leaves me totally baffled. I am not an 
Armenian carpet seller.

The toolchain was built using the instructions of LFS-4.1. It was used in 
building some of BLFS-1.0 including most of KDE. This problem only arises 
when building tcl8.4.4, tk8.4.4 and a couple of previous versions of the 
same.

Can you help me in this, please?

Keith Harwood.