Per the suggestion, I installed a copy of binutils-2.15.94.0.1 from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/binutils-2.15.94.0.1.tar.bz2

Now I get an error that seems to indicate this version of ld doesn't like the format of my /usr/lib/libc.so file.

The error is:
/usr/local/gcc/gcc34/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:/usr/lib/libc.so: file format not recognized; treating as linker script
/usr/local/gcc/gcc34/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:/usr/lib/libc.so:5: syntax error
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
...failed gcc-Link-action bin/boost/libs/serialization/build/libboost_serialization.so/gcc/release/shared-linkable-true/libboost_serialization-gcc-1_33.so...
...skipped <@boost!libs!serialization!build/libboost_wserialization.so/gcc/release/shared-linkable-true>libboost_wserialization-gcc-1_33.so for lack of <@boost!libs!serialization!build/libboost_serialization.so/gcc/release/shared-linkable-true>libboost_serialization-gcc-1_33.so...

/usr/lib/libc actually contains the following:
/* GNU ld script
   Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
   the static library, so try that secondarily.  */
OUTPUT_FORMAT(elf32-i386)
GROUP ( /lib/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a  AS_NEEDED ( /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ) )


So what compiler does work with boost on Fedora Core 4?  Just the gcc 4.0 series?



Vladimir Prus wrote: 
Ken Roser wrote:

  
I've recently switched my Linux system to Fedora Core 4 which has gcc
4.0.1 as the default compiler.  Since the code I'm developing must be
built with gcc 3.4.4, I have installed a copy of gcc 3.4.4 at
/usr/local/gcc/gcc34.  When I build boost with this compiler I get
hundred of similar errors from /usr/bin/ld.  I'll attach those warnings
to the end of this email.
    
...
  
/usr/bin/ld: `.L8' referenced in section `.rodata' of
    


This is a bug in gcc:

   http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16625

For some reasons, gcc developers don't give it much priority, maybe if you
add "me too" comment to the bug it will help a bit.

  
I do see boost get built using my specified compiler but get all the
warnings.   Building boost without specifying the gcc 3.4.4 compiler
does not produce any errors.  I suspect the problem has something to do
with the version of ld that gets invoked but even if it does, how would
I fix it.  ld is version:

GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2.2 20041220
    

You can downgrade binutils to suppress the warning (the bug report above
names exact version number). But this is just workaround.

- Volodya

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