Re: binutils issues with kernel compilation

David Brodbeck wrote:
> [...]
> gcc-2.95 -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.26/include -Wall -Wstrict- 
> prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit- 
> frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686   - 
> nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=mig  -c -o mig.o mig.c
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:1803: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov'
> {standard input}:1815: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov'
> make[3]: *** [mig.o] Error 1
> 
> Has anyone written a patch?  Downgrading binutils to 2.15 isn't  
> really an option because it would mean removing some later versions  
> of gcc that are required by other software.

Hello, David.

I posted a message about this a while ago. I've patched the 2.4.26-om1 
kernel sources and compiled them successfully under Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS:

	http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt/openmosix

Let me know how you get on if you use them?

	Tony.
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