id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,os,architecture,failure,difficulty,testcase,blockedby,blocking,related
2031,relocation overflow,maeder,,"I've created a statically linked ghc-6.8.2 for PPC Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger).
http://www.dfki.de/sks/hets/mac/versions/ghc-6.8.2-powerpc-apple-darwin-static-libs.tar.bz2

When linking our big hets binary after compilation with optimization I get millions (actually 34999 lines) of entries like:

{{{
/usr/bin/ld: PGIP/XMLparsing.o relocation overflow for relocation entry 63 in section (__TEXT,__text) (displacement too large)
...
/usr/bin/ld: SoftFOL/Sign.o relocation overflow for relocation entry 45280 in section (__TEXT,__text) (displacement too large)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [hets] Error 1
}}}

I had such messages before and got rid of them by rearranging code and imports (just by wild guesses, a strategy would be helpful). It is sort of a known (Apple PPC) deficiency (and I misuse this ticket to document it here).

Linking works fine after compilation without optimization or when linking against GMP and GNUreadline frameworks using my other binary distribution.
",bug,new,normal,_|_,Compiler,6.8.2,,,pho@…,MacOS X,powerpc,None/Unknown,Unknown,,,,