On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:39:54PM +0200, Eric Delaunay wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 11:38:47PM +0200, Eric Delaunay wrote: > > > Not really useful (could be ln -s /usr/sparc-linux . ?) > > > In effect, ld on sparc32 arch tries to create sparc32 binaries, not > > > sparc64 > > > ones unless "-m elf64_sparc" is provided on the command line. > > > The makefiles in linux kernel sources tree don't call ld like above but > > > just > > > sparc64-linux-ld. Therefore I have had to replace the link with a script > > > to > > > put the -m argument in front of the command line. > > > > I'm using kernel-package and the only thing I have linked is > > /usr/sparc-linux to "." > > else when supplying elf64_sparc, it can't find the linker scripts (bug in > > binutils > > IMO). The names of the bintutils that the kernel looks for for sparc64 is > > just a side > > affect of how the people doing the development had their systems setup > > (which is why > > kernel-package passes args to the make to overrride the defaults so that it > > works > > properly, except for the sparc-linux link). However on my system, even the > > standard > > kernel make adds -melf64_sparc to the linker command line. > > Which version of kernel-package are you using ? > I installed 6.23 from potato because the one from slink does not support > --subarch=sun4u very well.
Potato's > About the -melf64_sparc option passed to the linker, I will check that next > time I will build a kernel. > > Now I compiled a ultrasparc kernel but I don't have any chance to test it > because I don't have access to a ultrasparc neither at home nor at my office > :-(( > Could you help me, or anybody else, doing a trial run to see if it ever works > ? > I can upload it somewhere to make it available to you. I could try it. Question, are you simply working on bootdisks? I was going to compile a set of 2.2.12 kernels tonight to upload for sparc/sparc64. Ben
