Re: Creation of #debian-68k on irc.debian.org (OFTC)

["Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:29:42PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Finn Thain wrote:
> 
> > > GNU assembler version 2.16.91 (m68k-linux-gnu) using BFD version 2.16.91 20060413 Debian GNU/Linux
> > > gcc version 4.1.2 20060613 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-5)
> > > 
> > > But linux-image fails here:
> > > 
> > > arch/m68k/math-emu/fp_scan.S: Assembler messages:
> > > arch/m68k/math-emu/fp_scan.S:67: Error: Unknown operator -- statement `getuser.b (%a0),%d0,fp_err_ua1,%a0' ignored
> > > arch/m68k/math-emu/fp_scan.S:75: Error: Unknown operator -- statement `getuser.l (%a0)+,%d2,fp_err_ua1,%a0' ignored
> > 
> > Yep. That's the problem with recent binutils, for which you need the 
> > patches I mentioned from Al Viro. I guess I was wrong about binutils-2.16 
> > being OK.
> 
> I have no idea where this comes from. I mostly use 2.15 as cross binutils 
> and a few months ago I tested with binutils from CVS without problems. 
> Recently I also compiled a kernel with current binutils under m68k also 
> with no problems.
> So I hope that this was only a temporary problem.

Was? Is this fixed already?
 
> > > BTW, I am not using the CVS directly, I diffed the linux-CVS against Linus'
> > > tree and apply that patch to the debian sources. But I can try a clean CVS
> > > checkout, maybe my diff is bad.
> 
> I know that current CVS has problems, but I'm currently syncing patches 
> upstream, so I'm postponing it to the weekend.

I did a fresh checkout and found no differences when I recreate my diff, so
the CVS is fine.

Christian