ppc-82xx_objcopy hangs

[Marc Leeman]

I am in the process of porting our MPC8245 system to the MVista 3.1
(from 2.1). Just like with the kernel, this requires major code cleanup
in the kernel (sources I 'inherited' when starting :( ).

After cleaning the kernel sources and patching the 3.1 kernel, I want to
cleanup ppcboot and move to u-boot. I intend to do this in a 2-step
process.

1. compile a clean patch from ppcboot-2.0.0 to ppcboot-2.0.0-custom
2. port the patch to u-boot

I have the following problem:

1. ppcboot-2.0.0 compiles cleanly on the 3.1 env. for a board (a README
config).
2. when compiling the ppcboot-2.0.0-custom sources (with support for our
system), the compilation succeeds, but
ppc_82xx-objcopy --gap-fill=0xff -O srec ppcboot ppcboot.srec
gets stuck.

Idem for a system where I only brought in a couple of changes from the
old sources. Any ideas as to what code might cause this problem?

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