From: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: ppcdev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>,
Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Subject: Re: [HOW] binutils-2.17 breaks the 2.6.26 kernel
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:49:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080717004911.GA13596@iram.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910807161738g58da8bd7v78e9d50dc4d846cb@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:38:14PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 7/16/08, Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> wrote:
> > Hi.
>
> Previous threads have mentioned that binutil-2.17 is broken for
> building powerpc kernels. It is fixed in binutils-2.18.
>
> I have encountered this and upgrading to 2.18 fixed my build. The
> symptom is large kernel sizes and a long time in gzip. In my case it
> was gziping a 2GB file.
Only? Mine was over 3GB :-)
I've not yet had time to update the binutils (the machine has
a standard Debian Etch and I have trouble when adding Lenny
sources).
I also bisected it for fun and got 366234f6 as the culprit.
Gabriel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 0:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-16 16:21 [HOW] binutils-2.17 breaks the 2.6.26 kernel Milton Miller
2008-07-16 23:41 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-07-17 0:38 ` Jon Smirl
2008-07-17 0:49 ` Gabriel Paubert [this message]
2008-07-17 13:53 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-07-21 16:49 ` Rune Torgersen
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