On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > Upgrade to CVS binutils. The one Maciej has on his site is apparently > broken. If you want a toolchain that is known to work at least in > some cases, you can pull it from > ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/mips-linux/simple/crossdev/. That is > the toolchain I use to build kernels -and- userland (yes, I know, > everyone says it can't be done, but...) and thus it Works For Me (TM). Weird, I've always used tools I packaged for both kernel and userland builds and I had no troubles. The latest 2.10.91 version available at my site should be fine. I've only tested it with an R3k, though. I'm actually going to upgrade it to 2.11 ASAP, but I won't do it until I track down a weird kernel bug which is reproducibly triggered by a native mipsel-linux build -- the kernel crashes completely and silently after sed is invoked in a specific place upon running the libtool script in the ld directory. I suspect a corruption bug as the crash disappears if the script is modified a bit (e.g. some white space is added), so I'm actually glad I got bitten by the bug. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
