ubuntu 11.04
gnostic@GnoStiC-G633:~$ ld -v
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.21.0.20110327
-mustafa.
What linker version are you using?>>> On 5/17/2011 at 08:29 AM, Mustafa Tufan <mustafa.tufan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) downloaded http://code.coreboot.org/p/seabios/source/download/master/
>
> gnostic@GnoStiC-G633:~/seabios/seabios-master$ make
> Build Kconfig config file
> Compiling whole program out/ccode.16.s
> Compiling to assembler out/asm-offsets.s
> Generating offset file out/asm-offsets.h
> Compiling (16bit) out/code16.o
> Compiling whole program out/ccode32flat.o
> Compiling whole program out/code32seg.o
> Building ld scripts (version "pre-0.6.3-20110517_170406-GnoStiC-G633")
> Fixed space: 0xe05b-0x10000 total: 8101 slack: 1 Percent slack: 0.0%
> 16bit size: 39424
> 32bit segmented size: 1636
> 32bit flat size: 12300
> 32bit flat init size: 56624
> Linking out/rom16.o
> out/romlayout16.lds:697 cannot move location counter backwards (from
> 000000000000ca0d to 000000000000c9f4)
> make: *** [out/rom16.o] Error 1
>
> 2) downloaded
> http://code.coreboot.org/p/seabios/source/download/0.6.1-stable/
>
> gnostic@GnoStiC-G633:~/seabios/seabios-0.6.1-stable$ make
> Compiling whole program out/ccode.16.s
> Compiling to assembler out/asm-offsets.s
> Generating offset file out/asm-offsets.h
> Compiling (16bit) out/code16.o
> Compiling whole program out/ccode32flat.o
> Compiling whole program out/code32seg.o
> Building ld scripts (version "0.6.1.2-20110517_170552-GnoStiC-G633")
> Fixed space: 0xe05b-0x10000 total: 8101 slack: 3 Percent slack: 0.0%
> 16bit size: 38896
> 32bit segmented size: 1636
> 32bit flat size: 64828
> Linking out/rom16.o
> out/romlayout16.lds:695 cannot move location counter backwards (from
> 000000000000c9fa to 000000000000c9e0)
> make: *** [out/rom16.o] Error 1
>
> 3) it's same with 0.6.2 too
>
> gnostic@GnoStiC-G633:~/seabios-0.6.2$ uname -a
> Linux GnoStiC-G633 2.6.38-8-generic-pae #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 05:17:09
> UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> gnostic@GnoStiC-G633:~/seabios-0.6.2$ gcc -v
> ...
> gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4)
>
> any suggestions?
>
> Mustafa Tufan
I ran into this type of problem when using the latest un-official binutils package.
They have since fixed a recently introduced bug in ld that was causing the issue.
For more info, see: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691290
Bruce