Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure

From: Alan Modra <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:42:03 +0930

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 02:04:07PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>   LD      vmlinux.o
> powerpc-linux-ld: TOC section size exceeds 64k

I'm starting to sound like a cracked record, but I'll say it again:
ld -r does not merely package together object files, it transforms
them.   Try using thin archives instead.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM