Error from debug info extraction

[Paul Howarth]

Denis Leroy wrote:
> So I keep running into this kernel module build error :
> 
> extracting debug info from 
> /home/denis/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/open-vm-tools-kmod-0.0.0.137496-1.fc10.i386/lib/modules/2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686/extra/open-vm-tools/pvscsi.ko 
> 
> debugedit: elf32_updatefile.c:361: __elf32_updatemmap: Assertion 
> `scn_start + dl->data.d.d_off + dl->data.d.d_size == last_position' failed.
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.gBVRaW (%install)
> 
> 
> I ran into this both when compiling Nvidia and VMWare stuff, so the 
> culprit seems to be the debuginfo extraction code...  Any ideas ?

Do any of the compile steps for this object file reference a filename 
with two or more consecutive slashes in it, e.g. /path/to//some/file ?

I've seen a similar issue where resolving the double slash fixed the 
problem.

Paul.