Hurrahh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It works...

[Marc Karasek]

I am very very happy to say that I upgraded to Fedora 9 (binutile 2.18) 
and things seem to be much much better.  I was able to compile tinit 
just fine.

I found a similar problem to the .rom/.ram can't allocate error message 
in a thread for binutils. Seems this was a problem in 2.17 and has been 
fixed.

I will try all of the other combos but it looks promising.

A note needs to be made to stay away from binutils 2.17.

[Joseph Smith]

On Fri, 16 May 2008 11:43:32 -0400, Marc Karasek 
wrote:
> I am very very happy to say that I upgraded to Fedora 9 (binutile 2.18)
> and things seem to be much much better.  I was able to compile tinit
> just fine.
>
> I found a similar problem to the .rom/.ram can't allocate error message
> in a thread for binutils. Seems this was a problem in 2.17 and has been
> fixed.
>
> I will try all of the other combos but it looks promising.
>
> A note needs to be made to stay away from binutils 2.17.

I could have told you that. 2.17 is full of bugs. When I first installed
FC8, I couldn't build coreboot until I manually installed binutils 2.18.
There was a big thread about this right around the beginning of the year.
We should add this to the Wiki somewhere, to stop FC8 users from banging
their heads...

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello!
Based on your assertions, Marc, is it safe to assume that the combinations
for my distribution, at that point in time are not a good fit:(next
paragraph)
root@jimkirk:/# as --version
GNU assembler 2.15.92.0.2 20040927
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `i486-slackware-linux'.
root@jimkirk:/# gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.4.6
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

They have since created and launched the 12.1 release, but I am reluctant to
create the CDs for it, and install it. (Distribution name is in the target
blurb for the example of the binary utility chosen.) 
--
Gregg C Levine [e-mail]
"The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]

On
> Behalf Of Marc Karasek
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 11:44 AM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: [coreboot] Hurrahh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It works...
>
> I am very very happy to say that I upgraded to Fedora 9 (binutile 2.18)
> and things seem to be much much better.  I was able to compile tinit
> just fine.
>
> I found a similar problem to the .rom/.ram can't allocate error message
> in a thread for binutils. Seems this was a problem in 2.17 and has been
> fixed.
>
> I will try all of the other combos but it looks promising.
>
> A note needs to be made to stay away from binutils 2.17.
>
> Marc Karasek
> MTS
> Sun Microsystems
> mailto:[e-mail]
> ph:770.360.6415

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
> On Behalf Of Marc Karasek
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 9:44 AM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: [coreboot] Hurrahh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It works...
>
> I am very very happy to say that I upgraded to Fedora 9 (binutile 2.18)
> and things seem to be much much better.  I was able to compile tinit
> just fine.
>
> I found a similar problem to the .rom/.ram can't allocate error message
> in a thread for binutils. Seems this was a problem in 2.17 and has been
> fixed.
>
> I will try all of the other combos but it looks promising.
>
> A note needs to be made to stay away from binutils 2.17.

I still have the problem, even though I upgraded to binutils 2.18.50.

I also upgraded gcc, but maybe the problem is my version of glibc?  Are
there other candidates?

Thanks,
Myles
> Marc Karasek
> MTS
> Sun Microsystems
> mailto:[e-mail]
> ph:770.360.6415