Problems building an OCTEON1 kernel

[Juli Mallett]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 08:18, Andrew Duane <aduane at juniper.net> wrote:
>
> I've just set up a new sandbox from our local mirror, and I'm trying to build an OCTEON1 kernel for testing on a local platform. I followed the instructions from the MIPS Wiki page, which had worked before for me. However, now, when I try to "make buildkernel" (after "make kernel-toolchain"), every file compiled gives:
>
>  Assembler messages:
>  Warning: A different -march was already specified, is now octeon
>
> I'm sure that's because the cc line has -march=mips64, but then near the end has -march=octeon -mabi=64, and sounds benign. But, at the end:
>
>  linking kernel.debug
>  hack.So: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
>  *** Error code 1

Can you please E-Mail me off-list the complete list of arguments
you're passing to make or environment variables you're setting for it
as well as the kernel build output before link-time?

Thanks,
Juli.