Possible to build 9-stable kernel on 8.2?

[Sergey Kandaurov]

On 15 November 2011 23:45, Chuck Tuffli <ctuffli at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to do a buildkernel of 9-stable (r227536) on a stock
> 8.2 system? Most of it seems to work, but the linker fails towards the
> end with
>
> ...
> MAKE=make sh /usr/home/ctuffli/dev/releng_9/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh GENERIC
> /usr/local/bin/svnversion
> cc -c -O2 -frename-registers -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing  -std=c99 -g
> -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual  -Wundef
> -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions  -Wmissing-include-dirs
> -fdiagnostics-show-option -nostdinc  -I.
> -I/usr/home/ctuffli/dev/releng_9/src/sys
> -I/usr/home/ctuffli/dev/releng_9/src/sys/contrib/altq -D_KERNEL
> -DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS -include opt_global.h -fno-common
> -finline-limit=8000 --param inline-unit-growth=100 --param
> large-function-growth=1000  -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mno-sse
> -mcmodel=kernel -mno-red-zone -mno-mmx -msoft-float
> -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -ffreestanding -fstack-protector
> -Werror  vers.c
> linking kernel.debug
> ld:/usr/home/ctuffli/dev/releng_9/src/sys/conf/ldscript.amd64:9: syntax error
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/home/ctuffli/dev/releng_9/obj/usr/home/ctuffli/dev/releng_9/src/sys/GENERIC.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/home/ctuffli/dev/releng_9/src.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/home/ctuffli/dev/releng_9/src.

IIRC 8.x has sufficiently old binutils (ld is part of them) that
doesn't understand
opcodes and suchlike constructs used in 9.x based on top of newer biinutils.
And you are trying to build 9.x using binutils from 8.x.

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