collect2: error: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault], core dumped

Question

I was learning OpenGL using GLFW, and didn\'t have a great understanding of makefiles at the time. I had OpenGL working, but I decided to learn makefiles more. I came up wit

Answer 1

It means that the ld tool or one of its dependencies has a bug which results in an invalid memory access (segmentation fault) on which the operating system kills the process with SIGSEGV (signal 11). It should not crash regardless of your build setup.

You should probably file a bug report for ld with your Linux distribution vendor or directly to the vendor of the ld tool (usually GNU in case your ld tool is from the GNU binutils).