RTEMS web server linking error !

[gerke.kok at ascom.nl]

Thanks for the FIX, it worked for beta3 example as well. (m68k!)
wkr,
Gerke

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick.SIMON at syntegra.bt.co.uk 
> [mailto:Nick.SIMON at syntegra.bt.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 09:29
> To: joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com
> Cc: rtems-users at oarcorp.com
> Subject: RE: RTEMS web server linking error !
> 
> 
> Aha!  My tarfile.o had _binary_o-optimize-tarfile_start etc. 
> in it.  Now
> fixed.  Here's a diff on netdemos-4.5.0-beta2/http/Makefile:
> 
> 59c59,61
> < 	$(LD) -r -o $(ARCH)/temp.o  $(ARCH)/init.o -b binary 
> $(ARCH)/tarfile
> ---
> > 	cp $(ARCH)/tarfile .
> > 	$(OBJCOPY) -I binary -O elf32-powerpc tarfile $(ARCH)/tarfile.o
> > 	$(LD) -r -o $(ARCH)/temp.o  $(ARCH)/init.o $(ARCH)/tarfile.o
> 
> 
> I'm not wild about this (esp having elf32-powerpc embedded in 
> it), but it
> seems to work.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> -- Nick Simon 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joel Sherrill [mailto:joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com]
> > Sent: 23 May 2000 19:54
> > To: Nick.SIMON at syntegra.bt.co.uk
> > Subject: Re: RTEMS web server linking error !
> > 
> > 
> > Nick.SIMON at syntegra.bt.co.uk wrote:
> > > 
> > > A few days ago: Joel wrote:
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > + make a tarfile (or any random binary file)
> > > > + use objcopy to convert it to a native .o file
> > > >   (I think you get the warning here)
> > > > + link using that file.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Now I've come back to this, & done (essentially):
> > > 
> > > powerpc-rtems-objcopy -I binary -O elf32-powerpc tarfile tarfile.o
> > > 
> > > & then linked in the tarfile.o, using ld as an intermediate 
> > step.  I'm now
> > > getting a fat warning "cannot represent architecture 
> UNKNOWN" at the
> > > objcopy, and undefined _binary_tarfile_start and 
> > _binary_tarfile_size.
> > > 
> > > So:
> > > 
> > > - Is the warning significant?
> > > - Where do the start & size values come from?
> > 
> > No I don't think so.  
> > 
> > objcopy adds the symbols around the binary image as it
> > converts it.
> > 
> > > TIA
> > > 
> > > -- Nick Simon
> > 
> > -- 
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