[PATCH] Work around ld bug in older binutils

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Thu Oct 23 15:43:45 EST 2008


Commit 549e8152de8039506f69c677a4546e5427aa6ae7 ("powerpc: Make the
64-bit kernel as a position-independent executable") added lines to
vmlinux.lds.S to add the extra sections needed to implement a
relocatable kernel.  However, those lines seem to trigger a bug in
older versions of GNU ld (such as 2.16.1) when building a
non-relocatable kernel.  Since ld 2.16.1 is still a popular choice for
cross-toolchains, this adds an #ifdef to vmlinux.lds.S so the added
lines are only included when building a relocatable kernel.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
---
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index b39c27e..384dca5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.machine.desc)
 		__machine_desc_end = . ;
 	}
+#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
 	. = ALIGN(8);
 	.dynsym : AT(ADDR(.dynsym) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.dynsym) }
 	.dynstr : AT(ADDR(.dynstr) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.dynstr) }
@@ -202,6 +203,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		__rela_dyn_start = .;
 		*(.rela*)
 	}
+#endif
 
 	/* Fake ELF header containing RPA note; for addnote */
 	.fakeelf : AT(ADDR(.fakeelf) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.fakeelf) }



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