Re: {standard input}:1806: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov'

Hi Andrea,

On 10/13/05, Andreas Wilde <Andreas.Wilde-IC2btgX94ESFlIWp/[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I had a similar problem compiling OM-kernel 2.4.26. Compiling failed on
> process.c with assembler errors. I'm not sure whether the "cure" was
> right, but a colleague told me in another context, that there are
> problems with the binutils in debian unstable, so I downgraded to
> binutils (testing).
>
> binutils 2.16.1-2 The GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities
>
> Now I can compile 2.4.26 using gcc-3.3. Another thing I'm not sure
> about: The default in debian unstable seems to be gcc-4.0, given by the
> links in /usr/bin. When I modified HOST_CC in the top-level Makefile to
> HOST_CC = gcc-3.3, it sometimes took gcc-3.3, and sometimes took gcc,
> which would have been gcc-4.0.

Compilation now succeeds.

Downgrading to binutils 2.16.1-2 (testing) and setting HOSTCC=gcc-2.95
in the /usr/src/linux/Makefile did it.


Thank you very much for your speed and precision,

--
John Mettraux   -///-   http://www.openwfe.org


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