Re: Etherboot 5.5

Michael Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2005, Timothy Legge wrote:
> 
>>>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.
> 
> 
> Excellent.  Could you try the patch a line at a time to discover which one 
> is causing the problems?
> 
> Sorry to ask, but I can't reproduce this problem here.

I just tried the latest cvs on my Fedora Core 3 with:

$ ld --version
GNU ld version 2.15.92.0.2 20040927

It worked fine without the patch.  I will need to try it on my ubuntu PC 
this evening.  It is possible that the issue only exists in very 
specific ld versions.

Tim


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