linux-kernel - Re: WARNING: Absolute relocations present

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Date:	Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:35:06 +0100
From:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
To:	vgoyal@...ibm.com
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Fastboot mailing list <fastboot@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: WARNING: Absolute relocations present

Vivek Goyal schrieb:
> What's your ld version. I don't remember but some particular versions
> of ld will have this problem. These ld versions do some optimizations
> and if a section size is zero then linker gets rid of that section and
> any symbol defined w.r.t removed section, ld makes that symbol absolute
> instead of section relative. That's why you see above warnings. 
>
> I had raised this issue on binutils mailing list and they fixed it.
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2006-09/msg00305.html
>
> I am using following ld version and it works fine for me.
>
> GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.6-2.el5 20061020
>  
> So you will have to move to the latest ld version and problem should be
> resolved.
>   
Correct. I'm using binutils version 2.17. This is the current testing 
branch of gentoo for x86.
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