Re: [LinuxBIOS] Build broken?

[Beneo]

maybe should just use wildcard to include all sections except the ones
needed to be discarded? as far as I can tell, all the sections in .o files
are go into same section in output rom file. Then just let GCC to change
section name as it wants to.

beneo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald G Minnich" 
To: "beneo" 
Cc: "Lu, Yinghai" ; 
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Build broken?
> beneo wrote:
> > Is gcc 3.4 a requirement?
> >
> > If not, I would save the trouble and stay with 3.2.2. I didn't encounter

any
> > trouble building LinuxBIOS using this version until now. In another

word,
> > are you absulutely sure the issue I have stated is caused by gcc 3.2.2
>
> gcc keeps changing the names of types of segments we use. I don't recall
> the rodata.str1.32 segment before, but my memory is hazy.
>
> So, no, I don't *think* 3.4 is a requirement -- we built for a long time
> with 2.95, after all -- but at the same time, 3.4 is known to work ...
>
> ro