Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:02:26 -0600 (CST) | From | Kai Germaschewski <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.5.46 |
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On 4 Nov 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 18:37, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, george anzinger wrote: > > > > > I think we need a newer objcopy :( > > > > Alternatively, use this patch. (It's not really needed to force people to > > upgrade binutils when ld can do the job, as it e.g. does in > > arch/i386/boot/compressed/Makefile already). > > Does not work for me at all on sparc64, it complains that *.gz has an > unknown file format.
I suppose that's because sparc64 doesn't properly define LDFLAGS_BLOB (nor did it define ARCHBLOBFLAGS, which is replaced by the former now). Look at arch/i386/Makefile::LDFLAGS_BLOB and adapt accordingly ;)
> Why not just hexdump the thing into an array of char foo.c file, > then compile that.
Well, I wouldn't think there's any toolchain which doesn't support the current way when given the right flags, so that looks faster and cleaner to me.
--Kai
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