On Tuesday 16 August 2005 21:23, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> >forgive me, but I don't know the proper way to do this. I'm trying to
> >contribute.
> >
> >I got an error that stated "Please report this bug", so here goes...
>
> That request comes from the GNU ld linker. Try Googling for similar
> messages to see what the problem might be.
>
> "Report bugs to [email protected] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]", says ld --help.
>
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >Well, it's a linker bug, nothing to do with ivtv. But the latest
> >binutils version (the package containing the linker) is 2.16.1, so I
> >suggest upgrading to a newer version of that package for your
> >distribution. Or just build again, sometimes these errors disappear
> >the second time you try.
>
> If it "just works" the second time, something is probably wrong with
> your hardware. :) Run memtest86+.
Definitely not, any wild pointer or memory overwrite can give such behavior.
I've both programmed and fixed my share of these...
Hans
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