Re: 2.6.18-mm1 compile failure on x86_64

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On Tuesday 26 September 2006 09:07, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:41:27 +0200
> Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 26 September 2006 00:39, Martin Bligh wrote:
> > > http://test.kernel.org/abat/49037/debug/test.log.0	
> > > 
> > >    AS      arch/x86_64/boot/bootsect.o
> > >    LD      arch/x86_64/boot/bootsect
> > >    AS      arch/x86_64/boot/setup.o
> > >    LD      arch/x86_64/boot/setup
> > >    AS      arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.o
> > >    CC      arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/misc.o
> > >    OBJCOPY arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin
> > > BFD: Warning: Writing section `.data.percpu' to huge (ie negative) file 
> > > offset 0x804700c0.
> > 
> > Most likely that is the problem. I don't know what patch it could be
> > (none of mine have been merged yet).
> 
> That was 2.6.18-mm1 - it has around 300 of "yours" ;)
> 
> > Can you bisect?
> 
> I was unable to reproduce it.  Lack of disk space is suspected.

I suppose the BFD warning (writing to negative file offset) will cause that.
I guess it tried to write ~4GB into the executable.

Probably it's a toolchain problem of some sort then.

-Andi


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