build failure on powerpc with current -git

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Tue Oct 21 19:13:24 EST 2008


Hi Paulus,

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:33:10 +1100 Paul Mackerras <paulus at 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
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pmac] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/usr/bin/objcopy: Warning: '/dev/null' is not an ordinary file
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pseries] Error 1
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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