Last week there were several similar messages of the "can't compile"
sort. The error messages are all like
... "relocation truncated to fit: R_386_32 <name of offest>".
My crude fix was simply to uninstall the 'binutils-multiarch' package.
Make sure you have the normal 'binutils' package installed.
Extra info:
It is not a compiler error. It is the linker 'ld' that is complaining.
Each <name of offset> is defined somewhere in arch/.../<something>.S files.
I had a similar error and solved it, thanks to one of the messages
supplying a crucial clue that he was using the (same) frozen
Debian distribution as I was.
(Newbies, note that your toolset/linux-distribution -is- actually
useful information when submitting a problem report)
Interestingly, there were less of this type of error in a
2.3.18 kernel (that I knew to compile properly) than in the
2.3.99-pre3 one, if I remember right.
I don't really need the cross-platform stuff right now.
You might actually want it, though!
I will not filed a debian bug report for this. If this solution
works for someone other than me, but you also want to use the
binutils-multiarch package, then consider submitting it to the the
debian buglist if it's an unreported thing.
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