Crosscompiling for ARM: reloc type R_ARM_ABS32 is not supported for PIC - how to solve ?

I'm trying to crosscompile MQTT client for ARM platform. At the final step, creation of binaries, the system reports errors below.

I guess that I overlooked something...

What could be the reason ? I'm not sure whether this is the problem of program I compile, or toolchain or any setting ?

Thanks in advance, regards, R.

Log :
....
...
arm-2010q1/arm-uclinuxeabi/bin/elf2flt: error: reloc type R_ARM_ABS32 is not supported for PIC
arm-2010q1/arm-uclinuxeabi/bin/elf2flt: error: reloc type R_ARM_ABS32 is not supported for PIC
arm-2010q1/arm-uclinuxeabi/bin/elf2flt: error: reloc type R_ARM_ABS32 is not supported for PIC
arm-2010q1/arm-uclinuxeabi/bin/elf2flt: error: 6402 bad relocs
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [Makefile:26: static_pub] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory 'mosquitto-1.6.12/client'
make: *** [Makefile:59: mosquitto] Error 2 

On 15.11.20 18.34, Prijazen Dom wrote:
> I'm trying to crosscompile MQTT client for ARM platform. At the final step, creation of binaries, the system reports errors below.
> 
> I guess that I overlooked something...
> 
> What could be the reason ? I'm not sure whether this is the problem of program I compile, or toolchain or any setting ?
> 
> Thanks in advance, regards, R.
> 
> Log :
> ....
> ...
> arm-2010q1/arm-uclinuxeabi/bin/elf2flt: error: reloc type R_ARM_ABS32 is not supported for PIC
> arm-2010q1/arm-uclinuxeabi/bin/elf2flt: error: reloc type R_ARM_ABS32 is not supported for PIC
> arm-2010q1/arm-uclinuxeabi/bin/elf2flt: error: reloc type R_ARM_ABS32 is not supported for PIC
> arm-2010q1/arm-uclinuxeabi/bin/elf2flt: error: 6402 bad relocs
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:26: static_pub] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory 'mosquitto-1.6.12/client'
> make: *** [Makefile:59: mosquitto] Error 2


Your problem is ucLinux. The complaint comes from the last stage of
the run file generation, where the executable is converted to form
suitable for hardware without a memory translation unit.

I do not have a recipe to rectify the situation.

-- 

-TV

On 16/11/2020 12:34 am, Prijazen Dom wrote:
> I'm trying to crosscompile MQTT client for ARM platform. At the final step, creation of binaries, the system reports errors below.
> 
> I guess that I overlooked something...
> 
> What could be the reason ? I'm not sure whether this is the problem of program I compile, or toolchain or any setting ?
> 
> Thanks in advance, regards, R.
> 
> Log :
> ....
> ...
> arm-2010q1/arm-uclinuxeabi/bin/elf2flt: error: reloc type R_ARM_ABS32 is not supported for PIC
> arm-2010q1/arm-uclinuxeabi/bin/elf2flt: error: reloc type R_ARM_ABS32 is not supported for PIC
> arm-2010q1/arm-uclinuxeabi/bin/elf2flt: error: reloc type R_ARM_ABS32 is not supported for PIC
> arm-2010q1/arm-uclinuxeabi/bin/elf2flt: error: 6402 bad relocs
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:26: static_pub] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory 'mosquitto-1.6.12/client'
> make: *** [Makefile:59: mosquitto] Error 2 
> 

Sorry if this is stating the obvious, but R_ARM_ABS32 would seem to be
an absolute address, which conflicts with PIC (ie Position Independent
Code), which is, by definition, relocatable.
What your fix is, I can't say, further.