toolchain/39304: BFD assertion failure linking firefox3

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>Number:         39304
>Category:       toolchain
>Synopsis:       BFD assertion failure linking firefox3
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    toolchain-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug 06 17:20:00 +0000 2008
>Originator:     Martin Husemann
>Release:        NetBSD 4.99.72
>Organization:
The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
>Environment:
System: NetBSD nelly.aprisoft.de 4.99.72 NetBSD 4.99.72 (NELLY.MP) #42: Mon Aug 
4 15:50:32 CEST 2008 
martin%emmas.aprisoft.de@localhost:/nelly/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/NELLY.MP
 sparc64
Architecture: sparc64
Machine: sparc64
>Description:

Trying to build firefox3 from pkgsrc on a sparc64 machine fails:

rm -f libnecko.so
c++ -DSQLITE_THREAD_OVERRIDE_LOCK=0 -DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE  
-I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion 
-Wpointer-arith -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy 
-Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Dunix 
-fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe  -DDEBUG -D_DEBUG -DDEBUG_root -DTRACING -g -O2 
-fPIC -DPIC -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib/firefox3 -shared -Wl,-soname,libnecko.so -o 
libnecko.so  nsNetModule.o     -lpthread -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib/firefox3         
-Wl,-rpath-link,../../dist/bin  -Wl,--whole-archive 
../base/src/libneckobase_s.a ../dns/src/libneckodns_s.a 
../socket/base/libneckosocket_s.a ../streamconv/src/libnkconv_s.a 
../streamconv/converters/libnkcnvts_s.a ../mime/src/libnkmime_s.a 
../cache/src/libnkcache_s.a ../protocol/about/src/libnkabout_s.a  
../protocol/data/src/libnkdata_s.a  ../protocol/file/src/libnkfile_s.a  
../protocol/ftp/src/libnkftp_s.a  ../protocol/gopher/src/libnkgopher_s.a  
../protocol/http/src/libnkhttp_s.a  ../
 protocol/res/src/libnkres_s.a  ../protocol/viewsource/src/libnkviewsource_s.a  
../cookie/src/libneckocookie_s.a  -Wl,--no-whole-archive -L../../dist/bin 
-L../../dist/lib  ../../dist/lib/libunicharutil_s.a -L../../dist/bin -lxpcom 
-lxpcom_core  -L../../dist/bin -L../../dist/lib -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -pthread 
-L../../modules/zlib/src -lmozz   -lm    
ld: BFD 2.16.1 assertion fail 
/nelly/usr/src/gnu/dist/binutils/bfd/elf64-sparc.c:1389
ld: BFD 2.16.1 assertion fail 
/nelly/usr/src/gnu/dist/binutils/bfd/elf64-sparc.c:2222


>How-To-Repeat:
s/a

>Fix:
n/a