On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:39:10AM -0400, Kumba wrote: > Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 08:39:10 -0400 > From: Kumba <kumba@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: Jerry <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, > linux-mips <linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: relocation truncated to fit > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; > > Ralf Baechle wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:51:43AM +0300, Jerry wrote: > > > > > >>drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o: In function `sound_insert_unit': > >>sound_core.c:(.text+0x1ac): undefined reference to `strcpy' > >>sound_core.c:(.text+0x1ac): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_26 against `strcpy' > >>make[1]: *** [vmlinux] ÐÑÐÐÐÐ 1 > >>make[1]: Leaving directory `/work/video/kernel' > >>make: *** [vmlinux] ÐÑÐÐÐÐ 2 > >> > >>It's not a "sound drivers" problem, howewer without it kernel compiles > >>and run succesfully. Seems like gcc/bunitils bug/feature. What have to > >>be done to eliminate this error? > >> > >>GNU ld version 2.15.96 20050308 > >>gcc version 3.4.3 > > > > > > Don't use gcc 3.4 to compile Linux 2.4. It may work for some kernel > > configurations but it will fail for others. > > > > Ralf > > I would've thought this was fixed in 2.4.x now. You might try using newer > sources. The below patch fixes the issue: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/tmp/gcc-strcpy-fix.patch > > > As the original patch I found stated about gcc-3.4.x: > > From: Jan Hubicka <jh@xxxxxxx> > > GCC now converts sprintf (a,"%s",b) to strcpy. This lose on kernel as > strcpy is not inlined and not present in library, so one gets linker > failure. It seems to make sense to apply this optimization by hand. That fixes just the tip of the iceberg. You want to rebuild with -ffreestanding which 2.6 already does. With that applied still some 2.4 kernel configurations will run into a bunch of other gcc 3.4-related bug and not last loads of warnings. Ralf
