/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value

Question

I am using centOS 7. I was trying to install 'digest' package on R 3.5.0.

install.packages('digest')

But failed compilation with this error :

/usr/bin/ld: aes.o: unrecognized relocation (0x2a) in section `.text.aes_set_key' /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: ***[/opt/R/3.5.0/lib64/R/share/make/shlib.mk:6: digest.so] Error 1 ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘digest’ * removing ‘/opt/R/3.5.0/lib64/R/library/digest’

Do you have any suggestions?

Answer 1

I have installed the library in my Ubuntu24.04 LTS using

sudo apt install binutils

Then I made sure that everything is starting fresh, so I cleaned the project using:- make clean then rebuilt it using make.

This is what worked for me, make sure to clean the project before building it again.