Hi all,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" writes:
> What's wrong with the toolchain wrt the kernel now? I've been compiling
>2.4 kernels successfully till the end of January -- it's just a lack of
>time and a nasty bug I want to track down that stop me from trying to
>compile a new kernel these days.
This happens when I compile kernel 2.4.0-test9 with
binutils 2.10.1, gcc 2.95.3, glibc 2.2.2 on my 5000/260 (R4k)
(the same source/config compiles fine with 2.8.1/egcs-2.90.27/glibc-2.0.6):
# make boot
....
ld -static -G 0 -T arch/mips/ld.script.little -Ttext 0x80040000 arch/mips/kernel
/head.o arch/mips/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \
--start-group \
arch/mips/kernel/kernel.o arch/mips/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/f
s.o ipc/ipc.o arch/mips/dec/dec.o \
drivers/block/block.o drivers/char/char.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/ne
t/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/parport/parport.a drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o
drivers/cdrom/cdrom.a drivers/tc/tc.a \
net/network.o \
arch/mips/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a arch/mips/dec/prom/rexlib.a
\
--end-group \
-o vmlinux
nm vmlinux | grep -v '\(compiled\)\|\(\.o$\)\|\( [aU] \)\|\(\.\.ng$\)\|\(LASH[RL
]DI\)' | sort > System.map
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0t9-R4k/arch/mips/boot'
./elf2ecoff /usr/src/linux/vmlinux vmlinux.ecoff -a
wrote 20 byte file header.
wrote 56 byte a.out header.
wrote 240 bytes of section headers.
wrote 4 byte pad.
writing 30560 bytes...
Intersegment gap (-2147256160 bytes) too large.
make[1]: *** [vmlinux.ecoff] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0t9-R4k/arch/mips/boot'
make: *** [boot] Error 2
