[U-Boot] ARM ld: .bss overlaps section .rel.dyn

[Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>]

Hi Amit,

Le 05/02/2012 12:29, Amit Virdi a ?crit :
> Albert,
>
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 8:35 AM, viresh kumar<viresh.linux@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Albert ARIBAUD
>> <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>  wrote:
>>>>> On 2/1/12, Amit Virdi<amitvi128@gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>>>> I'm in the process of updating platform support for spear series of
>>>>>> SoC on the latest u-boot.
>>>>>> I picked u-boot v2011.12. I tried compiling for different spear boards
>>>>>> (spear 300, 310, 300 and spear600). In every compilation, I'm getting
>>>>>> following errors:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----------------------
>>>>>> arm-linux-ld: section .bss [007263cc ->   00728c5b] overlaps section
>>>>>> .rel.dyn [007263cc ->   0072a623]
>>>>>> arm-linux-ld: u-boot: section .bss lma 0x7263cc overlaps previous
>>>>>> sections
>>>>>> make: *** [u-boot] Error 1
>>>>>> -----------------------
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is one case.
>>>
>>>
>>> In fact, .bss overlapping .rel.dyn is normal -- the linker file even
>>> explicitly states this with ".bss __rel_dyn_start (OVERLAY)".
>>>
>>
>> Ok.
>>
>>> Which compiler do you use and which board exactly are you building?
>>>
>>
>
>
> We are using internal STLinux distribution. I tried compiling for spear320,
> and I couldn't succeed. Just to move a step further, can you please try
> "make spear320" at your end? If the error is not received at your end, I
> can be sure that the problem is due to the distribution at my end.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> Amit Virdi
>
> PS: I used v2011.12. "spear320" entry isn't there in the boards.cfg file. I
> shall be sending patch to update the same once I resolve this linking error.

Sorry, I should have stated this in the first place: I didn't see any 
warning with ELDK4.2 or with Linaro toolchain available in Ubuntu.

I just tried some CodeSource toolchains, and the 2009q1 emits the same 
error whereas the 2010q1 and 2011q1 don't.

Definitely a toolchain setting somewhere, and one that has disappeared 
in CS two years ago.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.