Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 16:46:47 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Mark S. Teel" <mteel AT texoma DOT net>
cc: DJGPP <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Difficulty re-building gcc
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On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Mark S. Teel wrote:

> I am trying to rebuild gcc and I keep getting the message :
> "c:/djgpp/bin\ld.exe: cc1: .text: line number overflow: 0x10b58 > 0xffff"
> on what appears to be the final link.  I have read the FAQ but haven't 
> found anything about this.  Thanks in advance.

You need to add -O2 to the compilation switches.  The problem is that 
COFF object format only supports 64K source lines per program, but when 
you compile without -O2, you get more lines than that.
Just add "CFLAGS=-O2" to whatever command line you pass to Make when you 
compile gcc.