link error with ramdisk file

I'm getting the following error when creating a ramdisk on a big endian system:

$ mips-linux-ld -T ld.script -b binary -o ramdisk.o ramdisk.gz
mips-linux-ld: ramdisk.gz: compiled for a little endian system and target is big endian
File in wrong format: failed to merge target specific data of file ramdisk.gz

I get the same error regardless of what I use for the input file. I don't understand how this linker error can occur when the input file format is binary. Isn't the linker just ignoring the contents of the input file with the
"-b binary" option?

Thanks!

Gerald

Gerald,

I recently had this mini-nightmare, too. I don't recall exactly what I did to eliminate it. I'm now using:

linux/arch/mips/philips/nino/ld.script

and my home-built linker: :-)

% mipsel-linux-ld -v
GNU ld version 2.11.90 (with BFD 2.11.90)

I can't recall whether it was a bad linker, or wrong script, or something else.

What linker and script are you using?

At one stage I used:

    EXTRA_LDFLAGS = --no-warn-mismatch

as a work-around. But now I've successfully disabled this.

Geoff

Geoffrey Espin [email protected]