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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:55:44 -0700
From: Bryan Chua <chua@ayrnetworks.com>
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To: "George Gensure,,," <werkt@csh.rit.edu>
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I ran into this at some point and tracked it down to adding -D__PIC__ to
CFLAGS.  I don't think it is necessary on newer (unreleased) compilers.

-- bryan

"George Gensure,,," wrote:

> I get the following error while trying to cross-build glibc for mips on
> an i686.  Can anyone give any insight?
>
> ../sysdeps/mips/setjmp.S: Assembler messages:
> ../sysdeps/mips/setjmp.S:43: Error: Can not represent
> BFD_RELOC_16_PCREL_S2 relocation in this object file format
> make[2]: *** [/usr/local/crossbuild/glibc-build/setjmp/setjmp.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/crossbuild/glibc-2.2/setjmp'
> make[1]: *** [setjmp/subdir_lib] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/crossbuild/glibc-2.2'
> make: *** [install] Error 2
>
> George
> werkt@csh.rit.edu