14.2.2. Relocation cannot be done when using -mrelocatable

Question:

I use ELDK version 3.0. When I build U-Boot I get error messages like this:

{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:4998: Error: Relocation cannot be done when using -mrelocatable
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Answer:

ELDK 3.0 uses GCC-3.2.2; your U-Boot sources are too old for this compiler. GCC-3.x requires a few adaptions which were added in later versions of U-Boot. Use for example the source tree (1.0.2) which is included with the ELDK, or download the latest version from CVS.