Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 -- powerpc link failure

From: Andy Whitcroft <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:52:50 +0100

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 06:36:29PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >I am seeing this strange link error from a PowerMac G5 (powerpc):
> >
> >  [...]
> >    KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms2.S
> >    AS      .tmp_kallsyms2.o
> >    LD      vmlinux.o
> >  ld: dynreloc miscount for fs/built-in.o, section .opd
> >  ld: can not edit opd Bad value
> >  make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1
> >
> >Compiler version below.
> 
> It's an ld error, could you show us your ld version instead?  And
> please try with current mainline ld, too?

root@elm3b19:~# ld -v
GNU ld version 2.16.91 20060118 Debian GNU/Linux

Getting the compiler suite changed on here is going to be a lot
tricker.  One of the reasons we keep it back there is those versions
are supposed to be supported and we want to test those combinations.

-apw