Failed to build linux-2.6.34-rc5 when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y using gold

[Wenji Huang]

On 04/20/2010 04:44 PM, Wenji Huang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried gold as the linker to build linux-2.6.34-rc5 and found that
> if I set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, there will be warning like
>
> gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)
> GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.20.1.20100303) 1.9
>
> HOSTCC arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs
> CC drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.mod.o
> CC fs/btrfs/btrfs.mod.o
> HOSTCC arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy
> RELOCS arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs
> CC fs/configfs/configfs.mod.o
> WARNING: Absolute relocations present
> Offset Info Type Sym.Value Sym.Name
> c101b0d0 00a94b01 R_386_32 c1655000 __init_end
> c101b0d5 00a94c01 R_386_32 c15d3000 __init_begin
> c101b1be 00a94b01 R_386_32 c1655000 __init_end
> c15df7ce 00a94b01 R_386_32 c1655000 __init_end
> c15df7d4 00a94c01 R_386_32 c15d3000 __init_begin
> c15df871 00a94b01 R_386_32 c1655000 __init_end
> c15df876 00a94c01 R_386_32 c15d3000 __init_begin
> c13b2848 00af1701 R_386_32 c155088c __start___kcrctab
> c13b285c 00af1a01 R_386_32 c155088c __start___kcrctab_gpl
> c13b2868 00af1b01 R_386_32 c155088c __start___ksymtab_gpl_future
> c13b286c 00af1c01 R_386_32 c155088c __stop___ksymtab_gpl_future
> c13b2870 00af1d01 R_386_32 c155088c __start___kcrctab_gpl_future
>
> GZIP arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.gz
>
> And the built kernel can't start up. But if unset CONFIG_RELOCATABLE,
> the warning will disappear and kernel can work well.
>
> Regards,
> Wenji

Same result on 2.6.34-rc6, using gold of binutils 2.20.51 snapshots.
But works well using ld instead.

Regards,
Wenji