I ran into this at some point and tracked it down to adding -D__PIC__ to CFLAGS. I don't think it is necessary on newer (unreleased) compilers. -- bryan "George Gensure,,," wrote: > I get the following error while trying to cross-build glibc for mips on > an i686. Can anyone give any insight? > > ../sysdeps/mips/setjmp.S: Assembler messages: > ../sysdeps/mips/setjmp.S:43: Error: Can not represent > BFD_RELOC_16_PCREL_S2 relocation in this object file format > make[2]: *** [/usr/local/crossbuild/glibc-build/setjmp/setjmp.o] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/crossbuild/glibc-2.2/setjmp' > make[1]: *** [setjmp/subdir_lib] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/crossbuild/glibc-2.2' > make: *** [install] Error 2 > > George > werkt@csh.rit.edu
