jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) (09/08/88)
In article <1071@cs.Buffalo.EDU> feuer@sunybcs.uucp (Steven Feuerstein) writes: >After downloading several programs from rpp386 I tried to compile: > > In many cases, the following error occurred: > >/bin/ld: fatal error: :group larger than 64k bytes > >I am on a SCO 286 clone. How can I correct this problem. you need to compile in large model. the default model for '286 systems is small. may programs won't fit in small model, so they must be compiled for large model. rpp386 is a '386 system. small model for it is 32 bits with 4GB segments so i don't have those problems. the CFLAGS in many makefiles will have to be adjusted to include -M2l for 286 large model compilation. month has been banged on and the makefile has been corrected to include the needed options. you can pick up the current copy, or add -Ml2 to the CFLAGS line in the Makefile. -- John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US) HASA, "S" Division "If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong." -- Norm Schryer
vandys@hpisoa1.HP.COM (Andrew Valencia) (09/09/88)
/ hpisoa1:comp.sources.bugs / jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) / 12:56 pm Sep 7, 1988 / In article <1071@cs.Buffalo.EDU> feuer@sunybcs.uucp (Steven Feuerstein) writes: >> >>/bin/ld: fatal error: :group larger than 64k bytes >> >>I am on a SCO 286 clone. How can I correct this problem. >you need to compile in large model. the default model for '286 systems An intermediate step is to try linking with -i. This will put data in one (up to) 64K area; code in another. Because it's still small model code, it will run faster if you can get away with this. G'luck, Andy