Fwd: [linuxdc-dev] Problem trying to build 2.6.0-test1

Fwd: [linuxdc-dev] Problem trying to build 2.6.0-test1

[Adrian McMenamin]

This is a message I posted to the Dreamcast linux development list. It appears 
to be a problem with the cross assembler (target is SH4, host is ia32) I am 
using but before I put it down to that, I wonder if anybody else has seen 
this and can offer a comment?

It is certainly not a configuration problem as the SH4 maintainer has built 
this kernel for the Dreamcast (he's probably the only one apart from me to 
have even tried :() and when I used his .config it failed in just the same 
way.

Thanks

Adrian

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Subject: [linuxdc-dev] Problem trying to build 2.6.0-test1
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:25:33 +0100
From: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
To: linuxdc-dev@lists.sourceforge.net

Getting this - is this a configuration problem? (Though it seems to occur
whether initrd support is on or off). I'm just using the gcc 3.0.4 I use to
build 2.4 series kernels with.

echo "  .section .init.ramfs,\"a\"" > usr/initramfs_data.S
echo ".incbin \"usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz\"" >> usr/initramfs_data.S
  AS      usr/initramfs_data.o
usr/initramfs_data.S: Assembler messages:
usr/initramfs_data.S:2: Error: Unknown pseudo-op:  `.incbin'
make[2]: *** [usr/initramfs_data.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [usr] Error 2
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2



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Re: Fwd: [linuxdc-dev] Problem trying to build 2.6.0-test1

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 03:00:46PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> This is a message I posted to the Dreamcast linux development list. It appears 
> to be a problem with the cross assembler (target is SH4, host is ia32) I am 
> using but before I put it down to that, I wonder if anybody else has seen 
> this and can offer a comment?
> 
> It is certainly not a configuration problem as the SH4 maintainer has built 
> this kernel for the Dreamcast (he's probably the only one apart from me to 
> have even tried :() and when I used his .config it failed in just the same 
> way.
>...
>   AS      usr/initramfs_data.o
> usr/initramfs_data.S: Assembler messages:
> usr/initramfs_data.S:2: Error: Unknown pseudo-op:  `.incbin'
> make[2]: *** [usr/initramfs_data.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [usr] Error 2
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2

You need more recent binutils.

Documentation/Changes lists 2.12 as the minimum required version.

cu
Adrian

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