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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: binutils woes
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Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Essentially, we run 'nm' against the object, and look for any line
> which matches the pattern '^ *U '.  With this, a failing output looks
> like:
> 
>   LD      init/built-in.o
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> ldchk: .tmp_vmlinux1: final image has undefined symbols:
>   SIZEOF_MACHINE_DESC

What is the user supposed to do when this happens?