17 Mar
2003
17 Mar
'03
8:36 a.m.
From: "Ian King"
<iking(a)killthewabbit.org>
I'm building a 2.11BSD kernel on my 11/73 (so I can include the networking
code and put my machine on the LAN!), and I'm seeing the error "too big for
type 431". Through the wonders of Google, I saw your discussion of this
error and followed your advice (from 1996!). However, when I ask 'size
I'd have, up to now, sworn that the overlay setup was in the
documentation (one of the appendices) but it could well be that it's
still off in a file somewhere in the mess I call my filesystem ;)
unix.o', I get a size comfortably within the
limits for base - 50112, well
below the 57344 you cite. None of the overlays exceeds 8192, and the 'total
text' figure is well below your example, too. FWIW, I did a 'naive build'
Do you have any 0 length overlays? There can't be any gaps in the
overlay structure.
For example, this is legal:
overlays: 8128,7552,8000,7296,8192,7424,5824,6784,3520
but this is not:
overlays: 8128,7552,8000,7296,8192,0,5824,6784,3520
first, copying GENERIC and changing a few parameters;
after seeing the error
'text segment too big' I went through the config file with a little more
thought and eliminated drivers I clearly didn't need (I don't have RL01/02s,
You might need to go thru the Makefile too. Good idea to eliminate
drivers you don't have (save their D-space requirements) but that
can create empty overlays and that does not work.
for instance). Then I started getting this error. I
did a 'make clean'
just to be sure, but still make gives me the 'too big for type 431' error.
(Yes, I RTFM on ld.)
Hmmm, patch level 431 is recent enough I'd have thought to avoid
a 'ld' problem (current is 444 but nothing recently has touched
ld).
What is the output from 'size unix.o'?
Cheers,
Steven Schultz