2008/4/28 Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>:
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> 2008/4/28 Patrick J. Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>:
>
>
> > Jesper Juhl wrote:
>  >
>  > > Hi,
>  > >
>  > > For your information;
>  > > I just test build Linus' tip of the kernel tree (HEAD at
>  > 064922a805ec7aadfafdd27aa6b4908d737c3c1d) on a up-to-date Slackware-current
>  > distro and hit this problem:
>  > >
>  > > ...
>  > >  GEN     .version
>  > >  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>  > >  UPD     include/linux/compile.h
>  > >  CC      init/version.o
>  > >  LD      init/built-in.o
>  > >  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
>  > > ld: size of bfd_vma > size of splay_tree types
>  > > ld: BFD (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.18.50.0.4.20080208 internal error, aborting
>  > at arange-set.c line 202 in arange_set_new
>  > >
>  > > ld: Please report this bug.
>  > >
>  >
>  >  Hello all,
>  >
>  >  Slackware-current does not use binutils 2.18.50.0.4.20080208, but rather
>  > binutils-2.17.50.0.17.  We've run into a few unusual issues with newer
>  > binutils versions, so we tend to be rather cautious about having that
>  > package on the bleeding edge.
>  >
>  >  I'd be curious if using the binutils-2.17.50.0.17 package from
>  > slackware-current would avoid this problem, but also wanted to let people
>  > know that the system in question had a critical part of the toolchain
>  > replaced with something that didn't come from our set of packages.
>  >
>
>  Fron the slackware-current changelog :
>  Sat Feb 23 01:30:50 CST 2008
>  ...
>  d/binutils-2.18.50.0.4-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to binutils-2.18.50.0.4.
>
>  $ which ld
>  /usr/bin/ld
>  juhl@dragon:~/kernel/linux-2.6$ grep usr/bin/ld /var/log/packages/*
>  ...
>  /var/log/packages/binutils-2.18.50.0.4-i486-1:usr/bin/ld
>  ...
>
>  That's the package I have and it was indeed part of Slackware current
>  when I fetched it.
>
>  I see now, on closer inspection that the changelog also says ;
>
>  Fri Feb 29 14:00:57 CST 2008
>  ...
>  d/binutils-2.17.50.0.17-i486-1.tgz: Reverted to binutils-2.17.50.0.17 due to
>        many reports of ld bugs...
>  ...
>
>  My scripts missed that, but I'll grab that package now and downgrade
>  and try to reproduce the problem.
>
Having downgraded binutils to 2.17.50.0.17.20070615 I no longer see this error.

I now see a different build error with my config, but that's now a new
issue and nothing to do with binutils or Slackware.

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