Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 2205] New: compile failure, gcc 3.2.3,

[Levent Serinol <lserinol@yahoo.com>]

Successfully compiled and running 2.6.3, 2.6.3_rc1 (Gentoo 
sparc-dev-sources) 2.6.3-bk8 and 2.6.4-rc1
on Ultra 10 with Gentoo 1.4_rc5 Sparc64.

Try "emerge"ing sparc-dev-sources.





Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> Took this to linux-sparc - someone may have encountered the same.
> 
> I have looked at the build output, and what I see is that
> ld complains about symbols declared weak in the corresponding
> ksymall.c file.
> 
> The quick way is to avoid defining KSYMALL in .config.
> 
> The root cause seems to be caused by a too old binutils, unable
> to deal with weak symbols for sparc64.
> 
> Could you please reply with current version of binutils (ld --version),
> and tell if it succeeeds without KSYMALL defined.
> 
> 	Sam
> 
> 
> Below is relevant part of mail conversation for reference.
> [Note - a make clean/mrporper did not cure it].
> 
> Brian wrote:
> 
>>I may be missing something, but kallsyms doesn't seem to be being run
>>in the sequence you describe.  Therefore, the entire build trace is in:
>>
>>       http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~bb/2.6.3-build_fail.txt
>>
>>                                                       Brian
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:04:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>>hm, kallsyms_addresses is generated by the build.
>>
>>Did you try `make clean' and then redo it all?
>>
>>Sam, `make clean' leaves some dotfiles around in $TOPDIR
>>
>>rw-r--r--    1 akpm     akpm       683158 Feb 26 01:08 .tmp_kallsyms1.S
>>-rw-r--r--    1 akpm     akpm       683158 Feb 26 01:08 .tmp_kallsyms2.S
>>drwxr-xr-x    2 akpm     akpm         4096 Feb 26 03:37 .tmp_versions/
>>
>>
>>Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:45:54 -0800
>>From: bugme-daemon@osdl.org
>>To: bugme-new@lists.osdl.org
>>Subject: [Bugme-new]  [Bug 2205] New: compile failure, gcc 3.2.3, gentoo SPARC, Sun Ultra 5
>>
>>
>>http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id"05
>>
>>           Summary: compile failure, gcc 3.2.3, gentoo SPARC, Sun Ultra 5
>>    Kernel Version: 2.6.3
>>            Status: NEW
>>          Severity: high
>>             Owner: other_other@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
>>         Submitter: bb@stat.ufl.edu
>>
>>
>>Distribution: gentoo
>>Hardware Environment: Sun Ultra 5
>>Software Environment: gentoo
>>Problem Description:
>>
>>There were a couple of small compile problems, such as the gcc version
>>check in init/main.c deciding that gcc 3.2.3 was too old, having to
>>expand and remove the SPRINTK macro in reiserfs, and unconfiguring two
>>scsi drivers that failed, but then I hit a showstopper:
>>
>>[...]
>>  CC      arch/sparc64/lib/rwsem.o
>>  AS      arch/sparc64/lib/strlen.o
>>  AS      arch/sparc64/lib/strlen_user.o
>>  AS      arch/sparc64/lib/strncmp.o
>>  AS      arch/sparc64/lib/strncpy_from_user.o
>>  AS      arch/sparc64/lib/xor.o
>>  AR      arch/sparc64/lib/lib.a
>>  GEN     .version
>>  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>>  UPD     include/linux/compile.h
>>  CC      init/version.o
>>  LD      init/built-in.o
>>  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x208f0): In function `kallsyms_lookup':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_addresses'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x208f4): In function `kallsyms_lookup':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_addresses'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20970): In function `kallsyms_lookup':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_names'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20974): In function `kallsyms_lookup':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_num_syms'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20978): In function `kallsyms_lookup':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_names'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x2097c): In function `kallsyms_lookup':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_num_syms'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20988): In function `kallsyms_lookup':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_addresses'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20990): In function `kallsyms_lookup':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_addresses'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20a1c): In function `kallsyms_lookup':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_num_syms'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20a2c): In function `kallsyms_lookup':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_addresses'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20a7c): In function `kallsyms_lookup':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_addresses'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20c24): In function `get_ksymbol_mod':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_num_syms'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20c34): In function `get_ksymbol_mod':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_num_syms'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20c84): In function `get_ksymbol_core':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_names'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20c90): In function `get_ksymbol_core':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_names'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20cd4): In function `get_ksymbol_core':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_addresses'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20cdc): In function `get_ksymbol_core':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_addresses'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20d44): In function `update_iter':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_num_syms'
>>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x20d48): In function `update_iter':
>>: undefined reference to `kallsyms_num_syms'
>>make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
>>
>>real    118m4.563s
>>user    114m31.810s
>>sys     3m3.380s
>>
>>Steps to reproduce: make vmlinux
>>
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