[SeaBIOS] Cannot move location counter backwards (romlayout16.lds) error

[Mustafa Tufan]

ubuntu 11.04

gnostic at GnoStiC-G633:~$ ld -v
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.21.0.20110327

-mustafa.

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Bruce Rogers <brogers at novell.com> wrote:

>  >>> On 5/17/2011 at 08:29 AM, Mustafa Tufan <mustafa.tufan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 1) downloaded http://code.coreboot.org/p/seabios/source/download/master/
> >
> > gnostic at 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 at 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 at 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 at GnoStiC-G633:~/seabios-0.6.2$ gcc -v
> > ...
> > gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4)
> >
> > any suggestions?
> >
> > Mustafa Tufan
>
> What linker version are you using?
> 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
>
>
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