Re: Linker (?) problems

[Adrian M. <ad...@ne...>]

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 22:13 +0100, Stuart MENEFY wrote:
> Adrian
> 
> Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > This is what I am getting with 2.6.20
> > 
> >   MODPOST vmlinux
> > printf: 1: $[0x80000000: expected numeric value
> > printf: 1: +: expected numeric value
> > printf: 1: +: expected numeric value
> > printf: 1: 0x00001000+0x1000]: not completely converted
> > printf: 1: $[0x80000000: expected numeric value
> > printf: 1: +: expected numeric value
> > printf: 1: +: expected numeric value
> > printf: 1: 0x00800000]: not completely converted
> >   AS      arch/sh/boot/compressed/head.o
> >   CC      arch/sh/boot/compressed/misc.o
> >   OBJCOPY arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin
> >   GZIP    arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.gz
> >   LD      arch/sh/boot/compressed/piggy.o
> >   LD      arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux
> > /home/adrian/buildroot/build_sh4/staging_dir/bin/sh4-linux-ld: invalid
> > hex number `0x000000000x000000000x0c0000000x000000000x00800000'
> > make[2]: *** [arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
> > make: *** [zImage] Error 2
> > 
> > I got similar stuff yesterday with 2.6.17 but I assumed this was bit rot
> > in the tools, so I rebuild them.
> > 
> > This is over my head - anyone able to tell me where to start fixing
> > this?
> 
> The problem is that you're not getting shell arithmetic expansion. I'm
> guessing that the shell invoked by your make (usually /bin/sh) is not
> bash, or is one of the versions which doesn't support $[ ... ] for
> arithmetic expansion (version 2.0 ?).


Ubuntu 6.10 has /bin/sh -> dash which causes all sorts of problems, I
have just discovered. So sudo rm /bin/sh; ln -s /bin/sh /bin/bash  and
all is right with the world.