What exactly does mean this error and what can cause it?
readelf: Error: LEB value too large
What LEB stands for? Lower(st) estimated bound(ary)?
I have seen it many times, in particular when building Archlinux packages.
in the DWARF format context, LEB128 stands for ‘‘Little Endian Base 128’’. LEB128 is a space efficient integer encoding if the numbers are small (see DWARF spec: http://dwarfstd.org/doc/DWARF4.pdf , Appendix 4)
The error you faced seems to be caused by a bug of binutils "a bogus error message from the DWARF LEB128 decoder when trying to read a signed LEB128 value containing the largest possible signed negative integer value."
see https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg35315.html