From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id XAA2438049 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 23:16:34 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id XAA5834412 for linux-list; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 23:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id XAA5480028 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 23:15:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.4.1]) by sgi.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id XAA04103 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 23:15:18 -0800 (PST) mail_from (ralf@uni-koblenz.de) From: ralf@uni-koblenz.de Received: from uni-koblenz.de (pmport-23.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.249.23]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16443 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:15:16 +0200 (MEST) Received: (from ralf@localhost) by uni-koblenz.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA04066; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:14:52 +0200 Message-ID: <19980331091452.41730@uni-koblenz.de> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:14:52 +0200 To: Ulf Carlsson Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: compile problem with kernel References: <19980330154244.19782@uni-koblenz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: ; from Ulf Carlsson on Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 09:26:20AM +0200 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 09:26:20AM +0200, Ulf Carlsson wrote: > On Mon, 30 Mar 1998 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 09:42:56AM +0200, Oliver Frommel wrote: > > > > > i got the kernel (linux-980326) from linux.sgi.com and had the following > > > problems crosscompiling it from intel-linux (which appeared on list once, but > > > without any answer/solution as far as i remember): > > > > > > mips-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/mnt/dsk1/devel/mips/linux-980326/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -mcpu=r4600 -mips2 -pipe -c entry.S -o entry.o > > > entry.S: Assembler messages: > > > entry.S:147: Error: .previous without corresponding .section; ignored > > > make[1]: *** [entry.o] Error 1 > > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/dsk1/devel/mips/linux-980326/arch/mips/kernel' > > > make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2 > > > > > > > > > i'd appreciate an explanation what's happening here very much .. > > > > In the vanilla FSF sources the .previous pseudo is broken resulting in > > these messages. The fix is in 2.7-4 and newer. > > What are the vanilla FSF sources? The only FSF I have knowlegde of is the > Free Software Foundation :-) Sorry, but the FSF doesn't over any other flavour except vanilla ;-) > Do I need a new crosscompiler? Not really, if you have a native compiler setup. A crosscompiler is however very handy and sometimes even necessary when bootstrapping for a new system. Ralf