Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | Date | Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:58:25 +1100 | | From | Paul Mackerras <> | | Subject | Re: build failure on powerpc with current -git |
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Stephen Rothwell writes:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:33:10 +1100 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote: > > > > It's a bug in older versions of ld (including 2.16.1) that's fixed in > > the current version (2.18). However, this patch appears to work > > around the problem - at least, it let me build a 32-bit kernel with a > > cross-toolchain including a 2.16.1 ld. Let me know if this gets it > > working for you. > > With that patch applied I got these errors for a powerpc ppc64_defconfig > build (linux-next). > > /usr/bin/objcopy: Warning: '/dev/null' is not an ordinary file
Hmmm, so do I, and in fact the arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper change now seems to be unnecessary with my cross-compile setup (which has ld 2.16.1), whereas yesterday I'm sure it got errors. Weird.
Chris, could you try just the following change (my previous patch without the arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper change) and let me know if it fixes things with the ld you use?
Paul. --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index b39c27e..384dca5 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.machine.desc) __machine_desc_end = . ; } +#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE . = ALIGN(8); .dynsym : AT(ADDR(.dynsym) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.dynsym) } .dynstr : AT(ADDR(.dynstr) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.dynstr) } @@ -202,6 +203,7 @@ SECTIONS __rela_dyn_start = .; *(.rela*) } +#endif /* Fake ELF header containing RPA note; for addnote */ .fakeelf : AT(ADDR(.fakeelf) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.fakeelf) }
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