[vbox-dev] Newer revisions not compiling on Debian Lenny

Frank Mehnert Frank.Mehnert at Sun.COM
Fri Dec 19 15:55:11 GMT 2008


On Friday 19 December 2008, André Neves wrote:
> Hi all. I'm not quite sure if I should report this here, but I'll give it a
> shot.
>
> I've had troube compiling VBox for the last couple of times I tried, always
> with the same error:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
>
> Has anyone seen it before? I don't have a clue on how to fix that.
>
> I attached the ouptut of configure and kmk so you could see the error in
> full. As you can see on the command line for configure, I'm using GCC 4.1.

We don't use gcc-4.1, I strongly suggest you to use gcc/g++-4.2.
This should compile your tree.

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    Sun Microsystems    http://www.sun.com/
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