Re: odd link error

[Brian Murphy <brm@tt.dk>]

David Kesselring wrote:

>I know my build for a custom board isn't right but it got through the
>compiles only to get this link error. Does anyone know what it might point
>to?
>
>mips64el-linux-ld --oformat elf32-tradlittlemips -G 0 -static  -T
>arch/mips64/ld.script.elf32 -Ttext  arch/mips64/kernel/head.o
>arch/mips64/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o init/do_mounts.o
>\
>        --start-group \
>        arch/mips64/kernel/kernel.o arch/mips64/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o
>mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o arch/mips/math-emu/fpu_emulator.o
>arch/mips/ramdisk/ramdisk.o \
>         drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o
>drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o \
>        net/network.o \
>        arch/mips64/lib/lib.a
>/home/dkesselr/stbsw/linux/linux-64sead/lib/lib.a \
>        --end-group \
>        -o vmlinux
>mips64el-linux-ld: invalid hex number `arch/mips64/kernel/head.o'
>make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
>
>  
>
-Ttext expects an argument, the hex number mentioned, and it is for some 
reason missing.
Since

arch/mips64/kernel/head.o

is not a valid hex number the build fails. You probably have some make 
variable which is not
defined which should be. You should look at the makefile which contains 
the linker line
and find -Ttext $(MISSING_VARIABLE) and find out why MISSING_VARIABLE is 
not set.

/Brian