Re: compiling PPC kernels using binutils-2.9.5.0.22-5

2000-03-22 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > It looks like objcopy no longer creates temporary files (the manpage states it > does), so it no longer works if the input and output file are the same. > > After reverting to binutils-2.9.5.0.22-4 everything worked fine again. Ok. I know I've w

Re: compiling PPC kernels using binutils-2.9.5.0.22-5

2000-03-22 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > I'll figure this out. This whole security patch thing is overblown, IMO, > but I can see how it could pose a problem in a very specialised case. I'm > going to figure out why it's no longer doing temp files, since it really > should (all tha

Re: compiling PPC kernels using binutils-2.9.5.0.22-5

2000-03-22 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Since binutils-2.9.5.0.22-5, the final stages in the kernel build process > fail: > > | objcopy vmlinux.elf vmlinux.elf --add-section=.note=note \ > | --add-section=sysmap=../../../System.map -R .comment > | objcopy: vmlinux.elf: File tru

compiling PPC kernels using binutils-2.9.5.0.22-5

2000-03-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Since binutils-2.9.5.0.22-5, the final stages in the kernel build process fail: | objcopy vmlinux.elf vmlinux.elf --add-section=.note=note \ | --add-section=sysmap=../../../System.map -R .comment | objcopy: vmlinux.elf: File truncated | make[1]: *** [vmlinux.elf] Error 1 It looks like ob