Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm1 (compile stats)

[John Cherry]

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:34, Andrew Morton wrote:
> John Cherry <cherry@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  Build error is still...
> > 
> >    LD      vmlinux
> >    SYSMAP  System.map
> >    SYSMAP  .tmp_System.map
> >    AS      arch/i386/boot/bootsect.o
> >    AS      arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.o
> >    AS      arch/i386/boot/setup.o
> >    HOSTCC  arch/i386/boot/tools/build
> >    CC      arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.o
> >    LD      arch/i386/boot/bootsect
> >    OBJCOPY arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin
> >  BFD: Warning: Writing section `.bss' to huge (ie negative) file offset 0xc02e4000.
> >  objcopy: arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin: File truncated
> 
> I think that means you need a binutils upgrade.  What version are you running?

2.13.90.0.18 binutils (gcc version 3.2.2).

I suspect you are right about the binutils.  I just did the same build
on my Fedora Core 3 machine and the negative file offset problem goes
away.

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