On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:56:42AM -0400, Alison C. wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> Is there a minimum binutils version required to build OVS 2.3.1?
>
> I'm trying to build it in a openwrt buildroot environment, but it
> fails with "{standard input}:1116: Error: unknown pseudo-op:
> `.tprelword'". According to a [Stack Overflow
> thread](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8872517) this could be due
> to too old version of binutils or gcc/g++ version mismatch. The
> versions of gcc, g++, and binutils are as follows:
>
> [11:42:40]
> erinacity:~/Code/openwrt/staging_dir/toolchain-mips_34kc_gcc-4.8-linaro_uClibc-0.9.33.2/bin
> alisonc $ ./mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-gcc --version | head -1
> mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-gcc (OpenWrt/Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.04 r45620) 4.8.3
>
> alisonc $ ./mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-g++ --version | head -1
> mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-g++ (OpenWrt/Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.04 r45620) 4.8.3
>
> alisonc $ ./mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-as --version | head -1
> GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.22
>
> Thanks for any input you might have.
OVS doesn't have any particular binutils requirement. OVS does do a
couple of minor "linker tricks" but binutils has supported those from
well before the time OVS started development around 2009.
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