Re: 2.6.8 link failure for powerpc-970?

Anton Blanchard
2004-09-23T13:29:13Z

> Sure. For ppc64, beyond allnoconfig, I had to enable
> CONFIG_SYSVIPC
> CONFIG_SYSCTL
> CONFIG_NET
> ... um, but that didn't fix everything. Now it fails with

OK, I guess we need some better wrapping of compat code.

> Um, why is it using the host's gcc? I ran make with
> make V=1 ARCH=ppc64
> CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/crosstool/powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-3.4.2-glibc-2.3.3/bin/powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-
> so it really should know better, shouldn't it?

Check out arch/ppc64/boot/Makefile, in particular CROSS32_COMPILE. The
boot wrapper is a 32bit binary.

Now that the toolchain is biarch capable we could get rid of that and
use gcc -m32 instead. But for the moment specify a CROSS32_COMPILE ant
things should link.

Anton