Re: Bug#441633: gcc 4.2 can't build erlang on mips and mipsel

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

severity 441633 grave
thanks

Sergei Golovan writes:
> Package: gcc-4.2
> Version: 4.2.1-5
> Severity: critical
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Current gcc 4.2 fails to build erlang package on mips and mipsel
> architectures. It works on all other architectures (I don't know about
> m68k since it isn't compiled yet).
> 
> Linker error messages are the following (the same for both mips and mipsel):
> 
> obj/mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu/opt/hybrid/beam_emu.o: In function `process_main':
> /build/buildd/erlang-11.b.5dfsg/erts/emulator/beam/beam_emu.c:4047:
> undefined reference to `$L2120'
> /build/buildd/erlang-11.b.5dfsg/erts/emulator/beam/beam_emu.c:4047:
> relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_PC16 against `$L2120'
> /build/buildd/erlang-11.b.5dfsg/erts/emulator/beam/beam_emu.c:4067:
> undefined reference to `$L2131'
> /build/buildd/erlang-11.b.5dfsg/erts/emulator/beam/beam_emu.c:4067:
> relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_PC16 against `$L2131'
> /build/buildd/erlang-11.b.5dfsg/erts/emulator/beam/beam_emu.c:4134:
> undefined reference to `$L2154'
> /build/buildd/erlang-11.b.5dfsg/erts/emulator/beam/beam_emu.c:4134:
> relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_PC16 against `$L2154'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Full buildd logs are:
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=erlang&ver=1%3A11.b.5dfsg-5&arch=mipsel&stamp=1189372829&file=log
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=erlang&ver=1%3A11.b.5dfsg-5&arch=mips&stamp=1189372894&file=log
> 
> It seems to me that it's not a bug in erlang itself.
> 
> Cheers!
> -- 
> Sergei Golovan