Re: 2.5.1-pre6 compilation errors

Falk Stern
2001-12-07T12:13:37Z

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 12:40, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On 7 Dec 2001, Falk Stern wrote:
> > Just tried to compile a vanilla 2.5.1-pre6 and got following errors:
> > (while doing "make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install" )
> >...
> > drivers/char/char.o(.data+0x46b4): undefined reference to `local symbols
> > in discarded section .text.exit'
> > drivers/net/net.o(.data+0xd4): undefined reference to `local symbols in
> > discarded section .text.exit'
> > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> >...
> > # ld -V
> > GNU ld version 2.11.92.0.12.3 20011121 Debian/GNU Linux
> >...
>
> this is a known bug in the kernel that shows up with the latest binutils
> packages in Debian unstable. As a workaround you can downgrade your
> binutils to the 2.11.92.0.10-4 package in Debian testing (you can
> download it from [1] if don't have it any more).

ok, "apt-get install binutils=2.11.92.0.10-4" did the job.

Thanks a lot

Falk

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