From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:53:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 12-234-88-146.client.attbi.com ([12.234.88.146]:57069 "EHLO lucon.org") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:53:50 +0200 Received: by lucon.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BDDCA2C4EC; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:53:32 -0700 From: "H. J. Lu" To: Lyle Bainbridge Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: GCC 3.2 to build mips-linux kernel Message-ID: <20021011105332.A11498@lucon.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from lyle@zevion.com on Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:34:53PM -0500 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 413 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: hjl@lucon.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:34:53PM -0500, Lyle Bainbridge wrote: > > I built a mips-linix 2.4.18 kernel for an AU1500 board using: > gcc-3.2 / binutils-2.13 / glibc-2.2.5 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Bad choice. > > It builds and executes but is unsuccessful during startup. > I have attached the log at the end of this message. It > appears to have skipped a number of steps. I noticed that > a working kernel built with gcc 2.95.3 is 800K larger. > (~3MB versus !2.2MB). > > I'm a little confused, and wondered if the 3.2 compiler requires > some patching to work for mips-linux. > gcc 3.2 I released for Linux/mips builds 2.4.20-pre6 kernel for malta just fine. But you are strongly recommended to use my latest Linux binutils. H.J.