Weird problems when upgrading to 2.17

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:58:22AM +0200, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> Alan Modra wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 04:56:43PM +0200, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> >>  powerpc-eabi-ld: error: no memory region specified for
> >>  loadable section `.rela.dyn'.
> >
> >Did you mean to build a shared library or a dynamic executable?  If so,
> >you might try adding "-z nocombreloc" to the linker command line.
> >
> 
> No, I want to build a static executable that runs from flash.

That's what I expected.  So how did the linker think you needed dynamic
relocations?  I think this can only happen if you pass -shared or -pie
to the linker, or link against shared libs.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre