Bug#448154: Bug 448154 Nonrepresentable section on output

[mmc1919 <mmc1919@earthlink.net>]

Hope this is useful.

I was able to recreate this bug on a powerpc box running RHEL 5, by (unknowingly) leaving an old '.so' library in the same directory as a new '.a' library. Removing the '.so' file cleared up the 'nonrepresentable section on output' error.

At first I had noticed that placing '-static' and '-shared' on either side of the '-lMyLibrary' fixed the problem.

-Mark Mitchell

(no, I'm not the well known computer scientist Mark Mitchell, I am actually a physicist)