Re: cross-compiling LM32 internal error while linking

[Federico Vaga <federico dot vaga at gmail dot com>]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 01:31:31PM -0000, Jon Beniston wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any particular reason why you want/need to use that option? Can't
> say I've ever tried it.

There is not. Indeed, I'm not using it anymore. But I think it should not
happen, right?

> Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Federico Vaga [mailto:federico.vaga@gmail.com]
> Sent: 26 February 2016 13:28
> To: Jon Beniston
> Cc: binutils@sourceware.org; 'Nick Clifton'
> Subject: Re: cross-compiling LM32 internal error while linking
>
> I think I found the source of the problem `--enable-host-shared`. If I use
> this flag I get this error:
>
> lm32-elf/bin/ld: internal error: addend should be zero for R_LM32_16_GOT
>
> Attached the script that generate the toolchain with the GOT issue.
>
> I hope it helps :)
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:51:24PM +0100, Federico Vaga wrote:
> > I confirm that without any flag it do not have problems. This means
> > that the problem is triggered by one of those flags. I will try to find
> > out which one in the days.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Federico Vaga wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 09:44:04AM -0000, Jon Beniston wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I can't reproduce the problem either. It would be useful to know
> > > > exactly what version of GCC you are using and how it was configured
> > > > when you built it. Perhaps use -save-temps and e-mail the intermediate
> files.
> > > Versions are the same as the first email:
> > > gcc 5.3.0
> > > binutils 2.26
> > > mpc 1.0.3
> > > mpfr 3.1.3
> > > gmp 6.1.0
> > > newlib 2.2.0
> > >
> > > Attached the script that I used to compile.
> > >
> > > I can do some tests in the next days/weeks (I do not know yet).
> > > Maybe I will try first to compile without any flag, actually I did not
> > > try yet :) Maybe is useful to find the problem.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Jon
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Nick Clifton [mailto:nickc@redhat.com]
> > > > Sent: 15 February 2016 17:44
> > > > To: Federico Vaga
> > > > Cc: binutils@sourceware.org; jon@beniston.com
> > > > Subject: Re: cross-compiling LM32 internal error while linking
> > > >
> > > > Hi Federico,
> > > >
> > > > I am sorry - I just cannot reproduce this failure. :-(  All my
> > > > attempts end up with a fully linked binary and no linker error messages.
> > > >
> > > > Please could you try adding -v to the end of your final gcc command
> > > > line, so that you can capture the linker command line ?  (It will
> > > > probably reference a program called "collect2" rather than the linker
> > > > itself, but that is OK.  It is the command line that I need).
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > > Nick
> > > >
> > > > PS Maybe it is the version of gcc that you are using ?  I am using
> > > > gcc 6.0 from the current mainline development sources...