Re: failure compiling glibc-2.2 for mipsel-linux-gnu

[Andreas Jaeger]

>>>>> Thayne Harbaugh writes:

 > 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)
Those binutils version is broken, you need some additional patches.
Get the RPMs from Maciej at 
ftp://ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl/pub/macro/

I'm using successfully this one:
ftp://ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl/pub/macro/SRPMS/binutils-2.10.1-3.src.rpm

Btw. egcs is also quite old might be the result of some problems,
Andreas

 > 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.

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