ld fails to relocate relative to local symbols?

[Paul Lalonde <plalonde at neoptica dot com>]

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I have an application that uses ELF to encode it's binary data (for  
assorted reasons, the binary data need relocation and linkage - ELF  
already supports this well and has many tools).
In the process of emitting the data, it's frequently useful to  
relocate against a local symbol (yes, I know I could add them to a  
dictionary and do a second pass on my data to resolve them myself).   
However, if I add a local symbol to the symbol table, and then  a  
relocation relative to it ld seg faults when I try to link it.  If I  
change it to a global symbol all is well. (ld -r test.o seg faults as  
well)
Is is the expected behaviour (well, not the seg fault, but at least  
not handling relocation relative to a local symbol)?

My environment is fedora core 4 on AMD64.  I'm running  
binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2.  The relocation type is R_X86_64_64.

Thanks,
    Paul

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