[...] warning: don't know how to split object files on this architecture [...]
Wolfgang, Ryan - that looks like a splitter problem, no?
Definitely. Looks like there is no splitter for x86-64. SplitObjs=NO is definitely required.
(The splitter is more of a dark art than the evil mangler, I propose we name it the "diabolical splitter" from now on.)
Hmmm, even 'diabolical' doesn't quite seem to capture it. While the Evil Mangler is Evil, it is not Entirely Evil. We have to ask ourselves, what would the world be like without the Evil Mangler? Can there be Good without Evil? Would the Noble Code Generator (NCG) still be Noble if there were no Evil Mangler? The Evil Mangler is the kind of Evil that still has honor. Years after the forces of Good have finally prevailed, the broken remains of the Evil Mangler will still be proudly displayed in the castle's repositories, and the descendants of the Knights who overcame It will utter Its name with respect for an honoured adversary. The Satanic Splitter however, or whatever that Nameless Nemesis should be called, is an enemy of a different kind. Instead of attacking directly and honestly, it relies on treachery to destroy its foes. It lurks in the shadow of its big brother, the Evil Mangler, and it seeks to make the unsuspecting world believe that it is relatively benign. It does nothing that is essential to The Cause, and it tells its unsuspecting victims that can say SplitObjs=NO at any time, but when they do, it punishes them with multi-megabyte executables. And it cannot even do its evil deeds by itself - without the help of a Traitor in the code generator who puts "split markers" into the Code, the Splitter would be helpless. And I'm quite convinced that the Splitter's agents infiltrated Apple to make sure that the dead-stripping code in Apple's linker runs really slow. If Apple's code was efficient, the Splitter would already be banished from the Land of Apples. So go ahead and call the Splitter any bad names you like :-). Cheers, Wolfgang