Weird problems when upgrading to 2.17

[Stefan Karlsson]

Hello,

I have a GNU toolchain built for embedded PowerPC development (target = 
powerpc-eabi).

The toolchain runs on Cygwin and consists of the following parts:

* Binutils 2.16.1
* Newlib   1.14
* GCC      4.1.1

Today I tried to upgrade to Binutils 2.17 but when using this to build 
my target project I got the error message:

   powerpc-eabi-ld: error: no memory region specified for
   loadable section `.rela.dyn'.

I tried adding *(.rela.*) to the text section in my link script but the 
result was not very good: (1) the map file now has a huge list of 
"Discarded input sections", and (2) there is undefined references to 
_SDA_BASE_ and _SDA2_BASE_.


Does anyone have any ideas on what I should do?

-- 
Stefan