Re: [coreboot] Patch file for ld/fedora 8 more issues...

Quoting Marc Karasek :
> It was not specifically x86_64 related.  It was however fedora 8
> related.  I think in my research that it has to do with the version of
> binutils.  I had sent out a mail to the reflector with a link to
> another discussion group regarding binutils and a bug that looked like
> it was this.  According to the thread, a patch had been submitted to
> the binutils tree  to fix this issue. The version of binutils I have
> that shows this problem is  2.17.50.0.18-1 2007073.  I am looking to
> upgrade to 2.18 as soon as it is avail (rpm) to see if this is fixed.
>
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>
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > On 23.01.2008 02:24, [e-mail] wrote:
> > > Quoting Carl-Daniel Hailfinger :
> > > > On 23.01.2008 01:41, [e-mail] wrote:
> > > > > Arugh!!! When I tested the patch eveerything worked ok but now with
> > > > > the new svn version, when I try abuild it get this:
> > > > >
> > > > > Creating builddir...ok
> > > > >   Compiling image ..FAILED after 13s! Log excerpt:
> > > > > gcc -m32  -nostdlib -nostartfiles -static -o coreboot_ram -T
> > > > > /home/joe/coreboot-v2/src/config/coreboot_ram.ld coreboot_ram.o
> > > > > collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault]
> > > > > make[1]: *** [coreboot_ram] Error 1
> > > > > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > > > > `/home/joe/coreboot-v2/util/abuild/coreboot-builds/via_epia/normal'
> > > > > make: *** [normal/coreboot.rom] Error 1
> > > > >
> > > > > Here is my version info:
> > > > > $ ld -v
> > > > > GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.18-1 20070731
> > > > > $ gcc -v
> > > > > Using built-in specs.
> > > > > Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
> > > > > Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
> > > > > --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix
> > > > > --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit
> > > > > --disable-libunwind-exceptions
> > > > > --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada
> > > > > --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --enable-plugin
> > > > > --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre
> > > > > --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode
> > > > > --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-cpu=generic
> > > > > --host=x86_64-redhat-linux
> > > > > Thread model: posix
> > > > > gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
> > > > >
> > > > > What gives???
> > > >
> > > > That's the ld bug Marc hit as well. I think it is specific to one Fedora
> > > > version. Maybe it helps to open a bug in the Fedora bugzilla.
> > > > One of Marc's patches had a workaround for that segfault as well.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Carl-Daniel

I found someone that built binutils-2.18.50.0.3-1 rpms here:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=27856

I will try it out and report back

Thanks - Joe