From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Jon Anderson <jon-anderson@rogers.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vmlinuz no symtab? while cross compiling...
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:22:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040820192244.GA7298@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040819220420.GB7440@mars.ravnborg.org>
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:04:20AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:37:19AM -0400, Jon Anderson wrote:
> > I'm attempting to cross compile linux-2.6.8.1, along with a few external
> > modules (madwifi, hostap-driver, aodv-uu). The kernel and (built-in)
> > modules compile fine, but compiling every one of those external modules
> > fails around MODPOST. For example, aodv-uu:
>
> Took a look at aodv-uu.
> Author should learn to create a real Kbuild Makefile...
> But that does not seem to be your problem.
Actually it was not that bad for 2.6 - but 2.4 could use some help.
> > modpost: vmlinux no symtab?
> modpost complains that it cannot locate the symbol table in vmlinux.
> That can be caused by the following reasons:
>
> o vmlinux were build with different settings than scripts/mod
> - If you cleaned out scripts/mod/ and run make scripts with wrong ARCH options
> o vmlinux has been stripped for some reason
The last item on the list was the culprint in this case.
Sam
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-20 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-19 6:37 vmlinuz no symtab? while cross compiling Jon Anderson
2004-08-19 22:04 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-20 19:22 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
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