[Buildroot] Buildroot-generated ARM toolchain can't compile kernel

[Buildroot] Buildroot-generated ARM toolchain can't compile kernel

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hi,

With a recent Buildroot checkout (a few days ago), I've generated a
toolchain for ARM, with gcc 4.2.4 and uclibc 0.9.29. My buildroot
configuration is available at :

 http://toulibre.org/~thomas/buildroot/buildroot-config-arm-udivdi3-problem

This toolchain is not able to build a ARM kernel (2.6.25), it fails at
link time complaining about __udivdi3 not being present:

  LD      vmlinux
net/built-in.o: In function `rt_worker_func':
stats.c:(.text+0x1f7cc): undefined reference to `__udivdi3'
stats.c:(.text+0x1f86c): undefined reference to `__udivdi3'
stats.c:(.text+0x1f884): undefined reference to `__udivdi3'
stats.c:(.text+0x1f9b4): undefined reference to `__udivdi3'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

If I build the exact same kernel with an ARM toolchain generated by
Buildroot, but using gcc 3.4.5 and uclibc 0.9.28, it compiles fine.

When objdumping the kernel, the function rt_worker_func() really makes
some calls to __udivdi3, which shouldn't happen since the kernel uses
a do_div() macro and should never use any function of libgcc.

Any idea of what is happening ?

Thanks,

Thomas
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