[ovs-dev] OVS 2.3.1 build fail using openwrt buildroot

[Alison C.]

Okay. Any other ideas why the build might be failing, then?

2015-05-15 12:27 GMT-04:00 Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>:
> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:56:42AM -0400, Alison C. wrote:
>> Hey everybody,
>>
>> Is there a minimum binutils version required to build OVS 2.3.1?
>>
>> I'm trying to build it in a openwrt buildroot environment, but it
>> fails with "{standard input}:1116: Error: unknown pseudo-op:
>> `.tprelword'". According to a [Stack Overflow
>> thread](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8872517) this could be due
>> to too old version of binutils or gcc/g++ version mismatch. The
>> versions of gcc, g++, and binutils are as follows:
>>
>> [11:42:40] erinacity:~/Code/openwrt/staging_dir/toolchain-mips_34kc_gcc-4.8-linaro_uClibc-0.9.33.2/bin
>> alisonc $ ./mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-gcc --version | head -1
>> mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-gcc (OpenWrt/Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.04 r45620) 4.8.3
>>
>> alisonc $ ./mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-g++ --version | head -1
>> mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-g++ (OpenWrt/Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.04 r45620) 4.8.3
>>
>> alisonc $ ./mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc-as --version | head -1
>> GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.22
>>
>> Thanks for any input you might have.
>
> OVS doesn't have any particular binutils requirement.  OVS does do a
> couple of minor "linker tricks" but binutils has supported those from
> well before the time OVS started development around 2009.



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