[Buildroot] buildroot toolchain fails to build kernel: "ld: no machine record defined"

[Joe]

In the meantime i managed to find the old kernel config in our backups, 
and this kernel builds fine. So i'm guilty messing it up - shame on me! :-(

Nevertheless thanks a lot,
Greetz Joe

Bernhard Fischer schrieb:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:20:43PM +0100, Joe wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> Today I tried to build a new kernel for my dev-board. Last time i did 
>> this was Nov 2007, when i also used a buildroot-created toolchain which 
>> worked absolutely fine. Today it compiles a lot, and then backs out with
>>
>> "arm-linux-ld: no machine record defined" in the file .tmp_vmlinux1
>>
>> After googling a lot, i found some messages including one by Russell 
>> King indicating that there is probably something wrong with the used 
>> binutils and that it should be reported to the binutils people. But 
>> because i used the buildroot chain, i thought i'd ask here first.
>> Tried combinations include gcc 4.2.1 and 4.1.2 as well as binutils 2.18 
>> and 2.17 on kernels 2.6.22.10 and 2.6.23.14. Every possible combination 
>> was given a try with the same results.
>>
>> Are there any ideas on this?
> 
> Please send me your buildroot.config and (if it's not the default) your
> uClibc.config and kernel.config for me to reproduce.
> 


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