failure compiling glibc-2.2 for mipsel-linux-gnu

[Thayne Harbaugh]

I am trying to compile glibc-2.2 for mipsel-linux-gnu.  Ninety-five
percent of glibc-2.2 compiles
correctly except for the elf binfmt.  Here is a very short snippet of
the failure:

make[2]: Entering directory
`/mnt/disk/home/tharbaug/linux4tv/glibc-2.2/elf'
gcc   -nostdlib -nostartfiles -shared -o
/mnt/disk/home/tharbaug/linux4tv/glibc-2.2/foo/elf/ld.so -T
/mnt/disk/home/tharbaug/linux4tv/glibc-2.2/foo/elf/rtld-ldscript \
          /mnt/disk/home/tharbaug/linux4tv/glibc-2.2/foo/elf/librtld.os         
\
          
-Wl,--version-script=/mnt/disk/home/tharbaug/linux4tv/glibc-2.2/foo/ld.map 
-Wl,-soname=ld.so.1
/usr/mipsel-liberate-linux-gnu/bin/ld: bfd assertion fail
../../bfd/elf32-mips.c:5390
/usr/mipsel-liberate-linux-gnu/bin/ld: bfd assertion fail
../../bfd/elf32-mips.c:5264
/usr/mipsel-liberate-linux-gnu/bin/ld: bfd assertion fail
../../bfd/elf32-mips.c:5267
/mnt/disk/home/tharbaug/linux4tv/glibc-2.2/foo/elf/librtld.os(.text+0x14):/mnt/disk/home/tharbaug/linux4tv/glibc-2.2/elf/rtld.c:
 relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_GOT16 _DYNAMIC
/usr/mipsel-liberate-linux-gnu/bin/ld: bfd assertion fail
../../bfd/elf32-mips.c:5264
/usr/mipsel-liberate-linux-gnu/bin/ld: bfd assertion fail
../../bfd/elf32-mips.c:5267
/mnt/disk/home/tharbaug/linux4tv/glibc-2.2/foo/elf/librtld.os(.text+0x90):/mnt/disk/home/tharbaug/linux4tv/glibc-2.2/elf/rtld.c:
 relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_GOT16 _dl_skip_args
/usr/mipsel-liberate-linux-gnu/bin/ld: bfd assertion fail
../../bfd/elf32-mips.c:5264
/usr/mipsel-liberate-linux-gnu/bin/ld: bfd assertion fail
../../bfd/elf32-mips.c:5267
/mnt/disk/home/tharbaug/linux4tv/glibc-2.2/foo/elf/librtld.os(.text+0xf8):/mnt/disk/home/tharbaug/linux4tv/glibc-2.2/elf/rtld.c:
 relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_GOT16 _dl_fini

There are hundreds of similar failures - too numerous to send in an
email.  I am using egcs-1.2.2 and binutils/ld/bfd 2.10.1 (shown below):

sh-2.03# gcc -v
Reading specs from
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/mipsel-liberate-linux-gnu/egcs-2.91.66/specsgcc version
egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)

sh-2.03# ld -v
GNU ld version 2.10.1 (with BFD 2.10.1)

I'm hoping you understand what's going on and can fix it or point me in
the
direction of where I should start looking for more information or
whatever it takes.

Thanks.


-- 
Thayne Harbaugh

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