Thanks you all for your replies.
  I will check this out and post the outcome.

 Michael

  

--- "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Michael Belamina wrote:

quoted

   I am still not sure about the following:

   1. Is this problem related only to kernels
downloaded from linux-mips.org or it is a more

general

quoted

one?

 The problem is Linux 2.4 is generally in the
maintenance mode, which 
means no new development is done on it (although
still an occasional 
backport from 2.6 may happen).  As a result
maintainers are rather 
hesitant about applying changes unless they fix
critical bugs.  Bugs 
revealed by new versions of build tools are not
usually considered as 
critical, because you may work them around by using
an old version of the 
triggering tool.

 Still for the MIPS port what you can get from
linux-mips.org is probably 
less behind than what there is at kernel.org.

quoted

   2. Can someone point to a known to work 64 bit
versions of gcc and binutil for BCM1250 (the

problem

quoted

that started this thread was actually a problem of

the

quoted

mip64-linux-ld I was using).

 For 64-bit builds you probably want to use fairly
recent versions or you 
risk hitting serious bugs that used to exist in
older versions.  Using 
David's patch (or preferably mine ;-) -- as
available here: 

"http://www.linux-mips.org/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=linux-mips&i=Pine.LNX.4.55.0406281509170.23162%40jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl";

which I keep using with GCC 4.0.0) is probably the
lesser evil.

  Maciej

		
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