* Re: [gentoo-mips] Still Problems with compiling the kernel
@ 2007-07-01 17:15 99% ` Kumba
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From: Kumba @ 2007-07-01 17:15 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-mips
Mathias W. wrote:
> Hi,
> As I mentioned previously without getting an answer
> (http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-mips/msg_00589.xml) I'm still having
> problems with compiling the kernel:
>
> LD .tmp_vmlinux1
> lib/lib.a: could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to
> add one
> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
>
> I've been always told to run binutils-config which I've done now a
> thousand times. I tried to switch compilers several times. I even
> emerged an old version of binutils (with USE="multislot") to switch to
> (and back) - nothing helped.
> Has anybody an idea what to try before I'm going to setup the system
> again from scratch?
I did hit the ldscripts error, which needed a fix in binutils-config. But this
ranlib-based one, I haven't hit in the last few times I've run catalyst to build
newer livecds. All I can say, is use crossdev to completely remove all traces
of cross-compilers, then follow behind it in /usr and remove any left overs that
might be remaining (usually in /usr/${CHOST}/*). Then, remove all your kernel
trees.
Remerge everything, using gcc-4.1.2 and binutils-2.17, and cross fingers. Make
sure you're running "make vmlinux" for 64bit targets (IP28, IP27, IP30) or
vmlinux.32 for quasi-64bit targets (IP22, IP32). Also make sure you have the
latest crossdev too.
I can only think that this is residual goop leftover, possibly form that
ldscripts bug. Since catalyst stages nuke everything on a rebuild, when the
ldscripts bug was fixed, I may've just skipped over this issue by the nuking.
Cause else, this would be a kernel build failure, and I should've ran into it by
now.
As a last afterthought, make sure mips64-unknown-linux-gnu-ranlib exists and can
be ran.
--Kumba
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