collect2: ld returned 12 exit status

[David Edelsohn]

> I'm trying to compile and link a product that was already compiled and
> linked successfully before, on AIX5.3 with gcc3.4.6, but I got the
> following link err:
> "collect2: ld returned 12 exit status"

> Pls note that this happens to me only when not using  the strip flag
> (-s) since I need the symbols for debugging...
> => I can link only the release version.

	There are other error message that you are not reporting, but I
suspect the problem is TOC overflow.  You can try compiling the program
with -mminimal-toc GCC option or adding -Wl,-bbigtoc to the link
commandline.

David