Stephen Rothwell writes:

> On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:33:10 +1100 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
> >
> > It's a bug in older versions of ld (including 2.16.1) that's fixed in
> > the current version (2.18).  However, this patch appears to work
> > around the problem - at least, it let me build a 32-bit kernel with a
> > cross-toolchain including a 2.16.1 ld.  Let me know if this gets it
> > working for you.
>
> With that patch applied I got these errors for a powerpc ppc64_defconfig
> build (linux-next).
>
> /usr/bin/objcopy: Warning: '/dev/null' is not an ordinary file

Hmmm, so do I, and in fact the arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper change now
seems to be unnecessary with my cross-compile setup (which has ld
2.16.1), whereas yesterday I'm sure it got errors.  Weird.

Chris, could you try just the following change (my previous patch
without the arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper change) and let me know if it
fixes things with the ld you use?