[PATCHv2] ARM: zImage: Use $(CROSS_COMPILE)size to get .bss size

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 08:50:22AM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > Use $(CROSS_COMPILE)size to determine the bss size
> > from vmlinux.
> > 
> > The problem is introduced in:
> > 
> > commit 5ffb04f6690d71fab241b3562ebf52b893ac4ff1
> > ARM: zImage: make sure appended DTB doesn't get
> > overwritten by kernel .bss
> > 
> > This fixes following error message:
> > 
> > size: arch/arm/boot/compressed/../../../../vmlinux:
> > File format is ambiguous
> > 
> > size: Matching formats:
> > elf32-littlearm
> > elf32-littlearm-symbian
> > elf32-littlearm-vxworks
> > 
> > Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>
> > Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber at corscience.de>
> 
> This is going to totally break my ability to build any kernels at the
> moment - for some reason I don't have an arm-linux-size with all the
> other bits of binutils, so I've been relying on the x86 version so far.

Naive suggestion: ln -s /usr/bin/size arm-linux-size


Nicolas