Thanks you all for your replies. I will check this out and post the outcome. Michael --- "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Michael Belamina wrote: > > > I am still not sure about the following: > > > > 1. Is this problem related only to kernels > > downloaded from linux-mips.org or it is a more > general > > one? > > The problem is Linux 2.4 is generally in the > maintenance mode, which > means no new development is done on it (although > still an occasional > backport from 2.6 may happen). As a result > maintainers are rather > hesitant about applying changes unless they fix > critical bugs. Bugs > revealed by new versions of build tools are not > usually considered as > critical, because you may work them around by using > an old version of the > triggering tool. > > Still for the MIPS port what you can get from > linux-mips.org is probably > less behind than what there is at kernel.org. > > > 2. Can someone point to a known to work 64 bit > > versions of gcc and binutil for BCM1250 (the > problem > > that started this thread was actually a problem of > the > > mip64-linux-ld I was using). > > For 64-bit builds you probably want to use fairly > recent versions or you > risk hitting serious bugs that used to exist in > older versions. Using > David's patch (or preferably mine ;-) -- as > available here: > "http://www.linux-mips.org/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=linux-mips&i=Pine.LNX.4.55.0406281509170.23162%40jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl";; > > which I keep using with GCC 4.0.0) is probably the > lesser evil. > > Maciej > Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html
