From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 09 Mar 2003 13:59:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p508B4B98.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.75.152]:49884 "EHLO dea.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 13:59:56 +0000 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h29DxjH28095; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 14:59:45 +0100 Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 14:59:45 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: HG , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: mips-linux-ld related question Message-ID: <20030309145945.B27651@linux-mips.org> References: <000f01c2e4c6$65818600$0400a8c0@amdk62400> <20030307181720.GA5795@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030307181720.GA5795@nevyn.them.org>; from dan@debian.org on Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:17:20PM -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: 1672 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: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:17:20PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > I installed the binutils-mips-linux-2.13.1.i386.rpm and > > egcs-mips-linux-1.1.2-4.i386.rpm from the linux-mips ftp site on a caldera > > distribution 3.11 linux box to crosscompile a 2.4 kernel. > > no error message while compiling , i get the following error while linking : > > mips-linux-ld: target elf32-bigmips not found > > > > is there some env variable or path that I missed that needs to be set ???? > > Fix the kernel; if it references elf32-bigmips your source is too old. > It should be tradbigmips with those tools. True - almost. We still have two systems, the Baget and the EV64120 explicitly referencing elf32-bigmips, so I guess he was using one of these two systems. I just fixed that in CVS - IRIX ELF really should be dead since years. Ralf