Bug#1125102: deal.ii: FTBFS on arm64: collect2: fatal error: ld terminated with signal 6 [Aborted]

[Graham Inggs]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 at 09:40, Emanuele Rocca <ema at debian.org> wrote:
> 9.7.1-3~exp1 fails with the same error as trilinos bug #1112274:
>
>  /usr/lib/aarld.mold: ./src/thunks.cc:217: void mold::OutputSection<E>::create_range_extension_thunks(mold::Context<E>&) [with E = mold::ARM64LE]: Assertion `thunk.size() < max_thunk_size' failed.
>
> I tried both with and without adding -ffunction-sections to LDFLAGS,
> same error.

That's a pity.  Thanks for trying.

For what it's worth, deal.ii builds in Ubuntu on arm64 with the mold
linker but fails with ld.bfd.