ld: kernel.debug: Not enough room for program headers

[Warren Block]

On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Jason Hellenthal wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 10:48:16AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 10:57:40AM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
>>> Trying to build 8-stable i386 for the last couple of days gives this
>>> error when building the kernel:
>>>
>>> /usr/local/libexec/ccache/world/cc -c -O -pipe -march=prescott -std=c99 -g -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual  -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions -nostdinc  -I. -I/usr/src/sys -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/altq -D_KERNEL -DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS -include opt_global.h -fno-common -finline-limit=8000 --param inline-unit-growth=100 --param large-function-growth=1000  -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-sse3 -ffreestanding -fstack-protector -Werror  vers.c
>>> linking kernel.debug
>>> ld: kernel.debug: Not enough room for program headers (allocated 5, need 6)
>>> ld: final link failed: Bad value
>>> *** Error code 1
>>> 1 error
>>> *** Error code 2
>>> 1 error
>>> *** Error code 2
>>> 1 error
>>
>> The freebsd-stable mailing list has been filled with tinderbox failures
>> for this exact problem with the LINT kernel, and it appears to be
>> specific to RELENG_8 on i386.
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-February/thread.html
>>
>> Start from the bottom and search upwards for the string:
>> "[releng_8 tinderbox] failure on i386/i386"
>>
>> Point being: the problem is not you.
>>
>
> This is why I don't like ccache. Technically the problem is there but
> also coexists within the source itself. For whatever reason I would
> believe a cached copy of already built source is having some collisions.
> As already stated "NO CCACHE" the kernel can be built with what I
> posted on three different machines.

But it still does (did) not build here with NOCCACHE set, so it's not 
a ccache problem.