Re: 2.6.12: arm compilation problems

From: Russell King
Date: Tue Jul 05 2005 - 17:43:46 EST


On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:50:01PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I get this, trying to cross-compile 2.6.12 for arm. I tried different
> configs... What am I doing wrong? [2.6.11 compiles ok, and even works
> on my zaurus after some patches. I tried unpatched 2.6.12, too.]
>
> GEN .version
> CHK include/linux/compile.h
> UPD include/linux/compile.h
> CC init/version.o
> LD init/built-in.o
> LD .tmp_vmlinux1
> /scratchbox/compilers/arm-gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.2/bin/arm-linux-ld:arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds:648:
> syntax error

Your binutils is probably too old and therefore buggy. 2.16 seems
reasonable, others prefer the known-buggy in other respects 2.15
version (iirc assembler doesn't complain about undefined constant
symbols, doesn't correctly hide $a, $d, $t symbols.)

The exact problem is the ASSERT() macro in the linker script - it
appears some versions of binutils are documented to accept this
but unfortunately it incorrectly errors out with a ficticious syntax
error.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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