Re: mips-arc build failure on xz_decompress.img

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Colin Watson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I tried to enable the mips-arc platform in Debian.  When test-building,
>> I first ran into a GCC uninitialised warning (promoted to an error by
>> -Werror), which I fixed in
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grub.git;a=commitdiff;h=1de3a48098053aaebd35232bd73e3ce3f3fdf51c.
>> Following that, I get:
>>
>>   if test x0 = x1; then   ../grub-macho2img xz_decompress.image 
>> xz_decompress.img; else   objcopy  -O binary  --strip-unneeded -R .note -R 
>> .comment -R .note.gnu.build-id -R .reginfo -R .rel.dyn -R 
>> .note.gnu.gold-version xz_decompress.image xz_decompress.img; fi
>>   BFD: Warning: Writing section `.text' to huge (ie negative) file offset 
>> 0x87cfff48.
>>   BFD: Warning: Writing section `.rodata' to huge (ie negative) file offset 
>> 0x87d027b8.
>>   BFD: Warning: Writing section `.data.rel.ro' to huge (ie negative) file 
>> offset 0x87d02834.
>>   BFD: Warning: Writing section `.data' to huge (ie negative) file offset 
>> 0x87d02898.
>>   BFD: Warning: Writing section `.got' to huge (ie negative) file offset 
>> 0x87d028a8.
>>   objcopy:xz_decompress.img[.text]: File truncated
>>   Makefile:41738: recipe for target 'xz_decompress.img' failed
>>   make[5]: *** [xz_decompress.img] Error 1
>>
>> Any idea what's going on here?  Let me know if I need to provide more
>> information.
>>
>
>
> Looks similar to
> http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2006-06/msg00028.html.

To be more precise - Makefile is using
-Wl,-Ttext,$(TARGET_DECOMPRESSOR_LINK_ADDR) with
TARGET_DECOMPRESSOR_LINK_ADDR=0x88100000 for MIPS. It may need to
explicitly specify start address for other sections as well, somewhere
near 0x88100000.