Re: 'final link failed: Bad value' when building Linux/MIPS kernels.

["H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:09:39AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "Steven" == Steven J Hill <sjhill@realitydiluted.com> writes:
> 
>  Steven> Greetings.  I have been chasing down a binutils regression
>  Steven> that is preventing me from building a Linux/MIPS kernel using
>  Steven> a gcc-4.2 based toolchain. Here is the snippet of output when
>  Steven> building a 2.6.12 kernel for my platform:
> 
>  Steven>      LD      drivers/mtd/maps/built-in.o
>  Steven>      LD      drivers/mtd/nand/built-in.o
>  Steven>      LD      drivers/mtd/built-in.o
>  Steven>    mipsel-linux-uclibc-ld: final link failed: Bad value
>  Steven>    make[1]: *** [drivers/mtd/built-in.o] Error 1
>  Steven>    make: *** [_module_drivers/mtd] Error 2
> 
> I've run into the same message when building things for a NetBSD/MIPS
> target.   I had assumed it was some error on my end.  
> 
> The problem with this message is that it is completely content-free.
> It doesn't contain a meaningful problem statement, and it doesn't say
> anything at all about where the problem is.  It doesn't even indicate
> what input file triggered the problem!   How is a user supposed to fix
> a failed build when this error message appears?  

Please file a bug report with all input files for the linker. I
will at least provide clear diagnostic messages.


H.J.