Re: Compiling with 2.6.25-rc2 with binutils 2.17 fails?

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>]

On Feb 16 2008 17:27, Rob Landley wrote:
>The build does this:
>>   VDSOSYM arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-syms.lds
>> --- -   Fri Feb 15 23:38:41 2008
>> +++ arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-int80-syms.lds Fri Feb 15 23:38:41 2008
>> @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
>> +VDSO32_PRELINK = 0x0;
>> +VDSO32_rt_sigreturn = 0x040c;
>> +VDSO32_sigreturn = 0x0400;
>> +VDSO32_vsyscall = 0x0414;
>> +VDSO32_vsyscall_eh_frame_size = 0x040;
>> make[1]: *** [arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-syms.lds] Error 1
>> make: *** [arch/x86/vdso] Error 2
>> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>
>Still trying to track down why, but it works on a toolchain built from 
>binutils 2.18 and gcc 4.1.3, but not with a toolchain from binutils 2.17 and 
>gcc 4.1.2.  And considering where it's failing...
>
>If binutils 2.18 is the only version that now builds the kernel, could we 
>update Documentaiton/Changes to say that instead of 2.12?

I have, as part of opensuse, binutils 2.17.50 and gcc 4.2.1 and that 
works fine.