Re: m68k build failure for 68040

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Chuck Silvers <chuq%chuq.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 05:09:57PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
>> 
>> Martin Husemann wrote:
>> >On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 04:43:18PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Doing a build of current for mac68k with -m68040 defined in mk.conf I
>> >> get the following error. It used to be possible to do an 040 build.
>> >
>> >What exactly are you doing? Accidently dropped all optimizations?
>> 
>> I had got this in mk.conf:
>> 
>> .if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == m68k
>> COPTS+= -m68040
>> LDFLAGS+= -m68040
>> .endif
>
>with those options turned on, the linker is putting the objects together in
>a different order for some reason, with the effect that the branch target
>of "PICJUMP $_exception_handler" is no longer within range of the 16-bit
>branch displacement which that that macro produces.
>

[snip]

>but the assembler actually produces the 16-bit displacement branch.
>forcing 32-bit displacement (ie. changing the "bra" to "bral")
>fixes the build (though I haven't tried running the resulting binaries).

Binaries built with "bral" seem fine to me.

Did a full update of the system and built a few packages on it.

Robert Swindells