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

[Ben Pfaff]

I don't know; this is the first report of this kind that I remember
seeing.

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 02:28:53PM -0400, Alison C. wrote:
> 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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