[U-Boot-Users] linker problems with u-boot-1.3.2-rc2/binutils-2.18 for Ocotoea target

[Wolfgang Wegner]

Hi again,

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 05:09:44PM +0100, Wolfgang Wegner wrote:
[...]
> Everything went fine until reaching the final stage of linking, there
> I get:
> powerpc-linux-ld: u-boot: section `.bootpg' can't be allocated in segment 1
> powerpc-linux-ld: final link failed: Bad value
[...]

searching with some less narrow search strings revealed that
it is a known binutils bug (Id 5205) of binutils-2.18.
I just installed binutils from most recent cvs version and now linking
U-Boot works again. (with GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.18.50.20080301)

Sorry for the noise.

Best regards,
Wolfgang