From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 25 May 2005 14:08:41 +0100 (BST) Received: from extgw-uk.mips.com ([IPv6:::ffff:62.254.210.129]:53010 "EHLO bacchus.net.dhis.org") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 25 May 2005 14:08:25 +0100 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.net.dhis.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4PD7fi7004212; Wed, 25 May 2005 14:07:41 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j4PD7fjs004211; Wed, 25 May 2005 14:07:41 +0100 Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 14:07:41 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Kumba Cc: Jerry , linux-mips Subject: Re: relocation truncated to fit Message-ID: <20050525130741.GK4383@linux-mips.org> References: <1399568766.20050525115143@wicomtechnologies.com> <20050525104905.GI4383@linux-mips.org> <429471EE.3090307@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <429471EE.3090307@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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: 7974 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 Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:39:10AM -0400, Kumba wrote: > Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 08:39:10 -0400 > From: Kumba > To: Jerry > CC: Ralf Baechle , > linux-mips > Subject: Re: relocation truncated to fit > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; > > Ralf Baechle wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:51:43AM +0300, Jerry wrote: > > > > > >>drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o: In function `sound_insert_unit': > >>sound_core.c:(.text+0x1ac): undefined reference to `strcpy' > >>sound_core.c:(.text+0x1ac): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_26 against `strcpy' > >>make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Ошибка 1 > >>make[1]: Leaving directory `/work/video/kernel' > >>make: *** [vmlinux] Ошибка 2 > >> > >>It's not a "sound drivers" problem, howewer without it kernel compiles > >>and run succesfully. Seems like gcc/bunitils bug/feature. What have to > >>be done to eliminate this error? > >> > >>GNU ld version 2.15.96 20050308 > >>gcc version 3.4.3 > > > > > > Don't use gcc 3.4 to compile Linux 2.4. It may work for some kernel > > configurations but it will fail for others. > > > > Ralf > > I would've thought this was fixed in 2.4.x now. You might try using newer > sources. The below patch fixes the issue: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/tmp/gcc-strcpy-fix.patch > > > As the original patch I found stated about gcc-3.4.x: > > From: Jan Hubicka > > GCC now converts sprintf (a,"%s",b) to strcpy. This lose on kernel as > strcpy is not inlined and not present in library, so one gets linker > failure. It seems to make sense to apply this optimization by hand. That fixes just the tip of the iceberg. You want to rebuild with -ffreestanding which 2.6 already does. With that applied still some 2.4 kernel configurations will run into a bunch of other gcc 3.4-related bug and not last loads of warnings. Ralf