Re: mips-linux-ld related question

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:17:20PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> > I installed the binutils-mips-linux-2.13.1.i386.rpm and
> > egcs-mips-linux-1.1.2-4.i386.rpm from the linux-mips ftp site on a caldera
> > distribution 3.11 linux box to crosscompile a 2.4 kernel.
> > no error message while compiling , i get the following error while linking :
> >  mips-linux-ld: target elf32-bigmips not found
> > 
> > is there some env variable or path that I missed that needs to be set ????
> 
> Fix the kernel; if it references elf32-bigmips your source is too old. 
> It should be tradbigmips with those tools.

True - almost.  We still have two systems, the Baget and the EV64120
explicitly referencing elf32-bigmips, so I guess he was using one of these
two systems.  I just fixed that in CVS - IRIX ELF really should be dead
since years.

  Ralf