Problem trying to build 2.6.0-test1

This is a message I posted to the Dreamcast linux development list. It appears to be a problem with the cross assembler (target is SH4, host is ia32) I am using but before I put it down to that, I wonder if anybody else has seen this and can offer a comment?

It is certainly not a configuration problem as the SH4 maintainer has built this kernel for the Dreamcast (he's probably the only one apart from me to have even tried :() and when I used his .config it failed in just the same way.

Thanks

Adrian

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Subject: [linuxdc-dev] Problem trying to build 2.6.0-test1
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:25:33 +0100
From: Adrian McMenamin <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]

Getting this - is this a configuration problem? (Though it seems to occur whether initrd support is on or off). I'm just using the gcc 3.0.4 I use to build 2.4 series kernels with.

echo " .section .init.ramfs,\"a\"" > usr/initramfs_data.S echo ".incbin \"usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz\"" >> usr/initramfs_data.S
AS usr/initramfs_data.o
usr/initramfs_data.S: Assembler messages:
usr/initramfs_data.S:2: Error: Unknown pseudo-op: `.incbin' make[2]: *** [usr/initramfs_data.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [usr] Error 2
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2

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You need more recent binutils.

Documentation/Changes lists 2.12 as the minimum required version.

cu
Adrian

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