Re: Etherboot 5.5

--- Michael Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> > $ make bin/e1000.dsk
> > ld -N  -T arch/i386/scripts/i386.lds  -u
> obj_dskprefix --defsym 
> > check_obj_dskprefix=obj_dskprefix   -u obj_e1000
> --defsym 
> > check_obj_e1000=obj_e1000   -u obj_config --defsym
> 
> > check_obj_config=obj_config   bin/blib.a -o
> bin/e1000.dsk.tmp \
> >         -Map bin/e1000.dsk.tmp.map
> > ld: internal error ../../ld/ldlang.c 1974
> > make: *** [bin/e1000.dsk.tmp] Error 1
> > 
> > $ ld -v
> > GNU ld version 2.15
> > 
> > Do I need a newer version?


I have the same ld version on Ubuntu and the same
error.

> Shouldn't do; I'm using 2.13.90.0.18.
> 
> This error occurs in the following portion of code
> in ldlang.c:
> 
>   /* Return the iteration when the definition of
> NAME was last updated.  A
>      value of -1 means that the symbol is not
> defined in the linker script
>      or the command line, but may be defined in the
> linker symbol table.  */
> 
>   int
>   lang_symbol_definition_iteration (const char
> *name)
>   {
>     struct lang_definedness_hash_entry *defentry
>       = (struct lang_definedness_hash_entry *)
>       bfd_hash_lookup (&lang_definedness_table,
> name, FALSE, FALSE);
> 
>     /* We've already created this one on the
> presence of DEFINED in the
>        script, so it can't be NULL unless something
> is borked elsewhere in
>        the code.  */
>     if (defentry == NULL)
> =====>  FAIL (); <======
> 
>     return defentry->iteration;
>   }
> 
> 
> So, it looks as though something is borked in ld. 
> You could try the 
> attached patch to arch/i386/scripts/i386.lds, which
> temporarily removes 
> all uses of DEFINED() in the linker script.  If this
> fixes the problem, 
> then we're closer to identifying what's wrong with
> ld.

Worked for me, but I have not tried to boott the
resulting disk image.

Tim


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