Linker weirdness: "could not read symbols: Invalid operation"

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 17:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 15:48 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> > > "could not read symbols: Invalid operation"
> > 
> > Could "Invalid operation" be an error message that corresponds to
> > an error from a system call?  Apply 'strace' to the link step
> > to see what happens shortly before the write() to stderr.
> 
> Huh. That's odd. When I run the exact command that was run during the
> compile (copy/paste), it succeeds. Makes doing the above a bit hard :)
> 
> Gonna run the build through mock and see what happens...

Guh. Same. The build fails, but if I go into the appropriate directory
in the mock buildroot and run the command, it succeeds.

I suppose the build process must be setting some kind of problematic env
var or something along those lines...that doesn't show up in the
command...jeez.
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