Compiling latest 2.6 bk snapshot on Alpha

Compiling latest 2.6 bk snapshot on Alpha

[Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer]

	  Hi all,

I've been hitting the same error every time I try to compile bk current on
alpha, namely the linker can't do its job on .tmp_vmlinux1.
My compiler is "gcc version 3.2.3 (Debian)" (but I also tried with 3.3 and
2.95), same problem.

Here is the output:
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
init/built-in.o(.text+0x12a8): In function `inflate_codes':
: relocation truncated to fit: BRADDR .init.text
init/built-in.o(.text+0x137c): In function `inflate_codes':
: relocation truncated to fit: BRADDR .init.text
init/built-in.o(.text+0x15bc): In function `inflate_stored':
: relocation truncated to fit: BRADDR .init.text
init/built-in.o(.text+0x2158): In function `inflate':
: relocation truncated to fit: BRADDR .init.text
init/built-in.o(.text+0x2170): In function `inflate':
: relocation truncated to fit: BRADDR .init.text
init/built-in.o(.text+0x21b4): In function `inflate':
: relocation truncated to fit: BRADDR .init.text
init/built-in.o(.text+0x21d4): In function `inflate':
: relocation truncated to fit: BRADDR .init.text
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

Am I missing something? Is there a bk tree for Alpha (Jeff Garzik, in his
bk doc talks about one but it seems to be dead)?

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Re: Compiling latest 2.6 bk snapshot on Alpha

[Marc Zyngier]

>>>>> "Mathieu" == Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mchouque@online.fr> writes:

Mathieu> I've been hitting the same error every time I try to compile
Mathieu> bk current on alpha, namely the linker can't do its job on
Mathieu> .tmp_vmlinux1.  My compiler is "gcc version 3.2.3 (Debian)"
Mathieu> (but I also tried with 3.3 and 2.95), same problem.

Please check your binutils version. Here is the one I use, with great
success :

maz@panther:/mnt/i386/linux-2.5$ alpha-linux-ld --version
GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.18 20030121

	M.
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Re: Compiling latest 2.6 bk snapshot on Alpha

[Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:40:31PM +0200, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Please check your binutils version. Here is the one I use, with great
> success :
> 
> maz@panther:/mnt/i386/linux-2.5$ alpha-linux-ld --version
> GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.18 20030121

Mine is: GNU ld version 2.14.90.0.5 20030722 Debian GNU/Linux

Looks like it's not that good... :-)

Thanks for the tip!
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Re: Compiling latest 2.6 bk snapshot on Alpha

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Wed, 2003-09-03 11:00:24 -0400, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mchouque@online.fr>
wrote in message <20030903150024.GA18306@localhost>:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:40:31PM +0200, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > Please check your binutils version. Here is the one I use, with great
> > success :
> > 
> > maz@panther:/mnt/i386/linux-2.5$ alpha-linux-ld --version
> > GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.18 20030121
> 
> Mine is: GNU ld version 2.14.90.0.5 20030722 Debian GNU/Linux

I've just started a compile run with exactly this ld and gcc-3.3.2
20030812. This may take a while (it's a 166MHz NoName...).

Maybe you've simply created a too large kernel image. Have you compiled
many features into the kernel (where modules would have worked also...)?

MfG, JBG

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Re: Compiling latest 2.6 bk snapshot on Alpha

[Balint Cristian]

If using RedHat-7.2 based thing on alpha or older you can use my own maintained RH rawhide for alpha:

ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux

There can find very latest gcc/binutils/glibc shaga, it must fit OK with any redhat for alphas.

I have no problem compiling latest kernel with tham.


Cristian


On Wednesday 03 September 2003 11:15, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-03 11:00:24 -0400, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
> <mchouque@online.fr>
>
> wrote in message <20030903150024.GA18306@localhost>:
> > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:40:31PM +0200, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > > Please check your binutils version. Here is the one I use, with great
> > > success :
> > >
> > > maz@panther:/mnt/i386/linux-2.5$ alpha-linux-ld --version
> > > GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.18 20030121
> >
> > Mine is: GNU ld version 2.14.90.0.5 20030722 Debian GNU/Linux
>
> I've just started a compile run with exactly this ld and gcc-3.3.2
> 20030812. This may take a while (it's a 166MHz NoName...).
>
> Maybe you've simply created a too large kernel image. Have you compiled
> many features into the kernel (where modules would have worked also...)?
>
> MfG, JBG

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