Binutils 2.28 on PowerPC: dangerous relocation: generic linker can't handle R_PPC_SECTOFF_HA

[Sebastian Huber]

Hello Alan,

----- Am 1. Jun 2017 um 12:42 schrieb Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com:

> On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 12:07:54PM +0200, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I get the following errors using Binutils 2.28 on PowerPC for a bootloader
>> program that is supposed to load an application image:
>> 
>> powerpc-rtems4.12-ld -o capture.ralf bootloader.o --just-symbols=capture.exe -b
>> binary rtems.gz -T ppcboot.lds
>> bootloader.o: In function `start':
>> head.S:140:(.text+0x8a): dangerous relocation: generic linker can't handle
>> R_PPC_SECTOFF_HA
> 
> Did you build the linker for the correct target?  "generic linker"
> errors usually mean you're attempting to produce different output to
> the input objects.

I use the same configure command line to build 2.28 and the master.  For the Git bisect, I re-used the build tree in each step.

I get always:

powerpc-rtems4.12-ld --print-output-format
elf32-powerpc