I posted a blog entry a while back that showed how to setup smartd on a Solaris system. Two individuals left comments indicating that smartmontools wouldn’t build, and one individual (Peter) received the following errors during the build process:
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -W -c `test -f 'os_solaris_ata.s' || echo './'`os_solaris_ata.s
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -W -o smartd smartd.o atacmdnames.o atacmds.o ataprint.o knowndrives.o scsicmds.o scsiprint.o utility.o o
s_solaris.o os_solaris_ata.o -lnsl
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file os_solaris_ata.o: symbol : offset 0xfea5feef is non-aligned
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file os_solaris_ata.o: symbol : offset 0xfea5fef5 is non-aligned
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file os_solaris_ata.o: symbol : offset 0xfea5fef9 is non-aligned
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file os_solaris_ata.o: symbol : offset 0xfea5fefd is non-aligned
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file os_solaris_ata.o: symbol : offset 0xfea72806 is non-aligned
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file os_solaris_ata.o: symbol : offset 0xfea77436 is non-aligned
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
I was able to recreate the problem on my Sun Ultra 10 running Solaris 10. To get smartmontools to compile, I ran “configure,” “make,” and then waited for the build process to fail. Once the build errored out, I removed the “-g” option from the gcc options and executed the following statements by hand:
$ gcc -O2 -Wall -W -ctest -f ‘os_solaris_ata.s’ || echo './'os_solaris_ata.s**
$ make
Since os_solaris_ata.s is a hand coded SPARC assembly file, I am not 100% certain why the smartmontools authors are trying to add debugging symbols to the object file. I will need to do some additional digging to find the answer.