From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sat Sep 17 07:27:54 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Subject: Re: [MiNT] binutils 2.16.1 From: Mark Duckworth To: Philipp =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Donz=E9?= Cc: Mint List In-Reply-To: <50F07CF5-C89A-4083-A6BB-D17ECCF0E703@gmx.ch> References: <20050815162154.49818cfb.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> <1124116320.7719.33.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <20050816190800.54928fc6.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> <20050816223241.62aec2a2.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> <1124224855.2960.17.camel@mduckworth.phillypark.net> <50F07CF5-C89A-4083-A6BB-D17ECCF0E703@gmx.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:21:42 -0400 Message-Id: <1126934502.13271.22.camel@mduckworth.phillypark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.1.fc4.nr) X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de id j8H5Rqhv002811 On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 21:04 +0200, Philipp Donzé wrote: > Hi Mark, > > As I read on mintlist you're working at porting the binutils 2.16.1. > Can you tell me how well it works for you? How did you progress? > > I'm using (=trying) to get binutils 2.16.1 and gcc 3.3.6 working as a > cross-compiler on my PowerMac (using Patrice Mandins patches). Today, > after some nasty assembly bugs, I finally succeeded in compiling gcc > without errors. After that I did some smaller tests: compile simple > main() function with and without gemlib. (=this implies I compiled > gemlib.) > When I tried to compile "cflib" the process fails at linking-phase of > the demo application: First of all, which are you using? You must be using release 3 from the package staging. > > /usr/local/cross-tools/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-atari-mint/3.3.6/libgcc.a > > (_floatex.o):../../gcc-3.3.6/gcc/config/m68k/lb1sf68.asm:218: > > relocation truncated to fit: 16 against `*ABS*' > > /usr/local/cross-tools/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-atari-mint/3.3.6/libgcc.a > > (_floatex.o):../../gcc-3.3.6/gcc/config/m68k/lb1sf68.asm:218: > > relocation truncated to fit: 16 against `*ABS*' > > /usr/local/cross-tools/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-atari-mint/3.3.6/libgcc.a > > (_floatex.o):../../gcc-3.3.6/gcc/config/m68k/lb1sf68.asm:218: > > relocation truncated to fit: 16 against `*ABS*' > This may not necessarily indicate a problem with binutils. Try to use gcc 2.95.3 compiler too. I just built and all is well. It looks like 32 bit and 16bit libs getting mixed together and confused. Check that out? HTH Mark