Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix build bug with binutils 2.18 and GCC 4.2

2008-07-24 Thread Segher Boessenkool
[putting linuxppc-dev on Cc:, hope you don't mind] On 24 jul 2008, at 08:32, Chuck Meade wrote: I wanted to reply to your original message regarding this, but sadly I had already deleted it. So I am sending directly to you. This patch broke my link. Sorry. I didn't test with anything

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix build bug with binutils 2.18 and GCC 4.2

2008-07-24 Thread Chuck Meade
Segher Boessenkool wrote: [putting linuxppc-dev on Cc:, hope you don't mind] On 24 jul 2008, at 08:32, Chuck Meade wrote: I wanted to reply to your original message regarding this, but sadly I had already deleted it. So I am sending directly to you. This patch broke my link. Sorry.

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix build bug with binutils 2.18 and GCC 4.2

2008-07-24 Thread Segher Boessenkool
I can help you by testing on 2.15. Send me alternate vmlinux.lds.S files to try, and I will test and get back to you ASAP. No, I will not send you randomly changed source files and hope they will do something useful for you. Instead, why not provide me the information I asked for? What

[PATCH] powerpc: Fix build bug with binutils 2.18 and GCC 4.2

2008-07-21 Thread Segher Boessenkool
binutils 2.18 has a bug that makes it misbehave when taking an ELF file with all segments at load address 0 as input. This happens when running strip on vmlinux, because of the AT() magic in this linker script. People using GCC = 4.2 won't run into this problem, because the build-id support