Re: 2.5.24 doesn't compile on Alpha

[Jurriaan on Alpha <thunder7@xs4all.nl>]

From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
Date: Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 10:57:41PM +0200
> On Fri, 2002-06-21 22:37:26 +0200, Jurriaan on Alpha <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
> wrote in message <20020621203726.GA2308@alpha.of.nowhere>:
>>
>> This patchs helps a lot; now I get:
>> drivers/built-in.o(.data+0x37118): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
> 
> I think this "bug" appears with some binutils some weeks/months old. Try
> to upgrade them.
> 
Hmm, I had an up-to-date debian testing system.
So I upgraded to the latest binutils from unstable, that didn't work.
Then I downloaded binutils-2.12.1 from source and installed that - still
doesn't work.
The latest from unstable was 2.12.90.0.9.

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.24/init'
  ld -static -T arch/alpha/vmlinux.lds -N  arch/alpha/kernel/head.o init/init.o --start-group arch/alpha/kernel/kernel.o arch/alpha/m
m/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o arch/alpha/math-emu/built-in.o /usr/src/linux-2.5.24/arch/alpha/lib/lib.a lib/lib.a
/usr/src/linux-2.5.24/arch/alpha/lib/lib.a drivers/built-in.o sound/sound.o net/network.o --end-group -o vmlinux
drivers/built-in.o(.data+0x37118): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
alpha:/usr/src/linux-2.5.24# ld -v
GNU ld version 2.12.90.0.9 20020526 Debian GNU/Linux
alpha:/usr/src/linux-2.5.24# ld -static -T arch/alpha/vmlinux.lds -N  arch/alpha/kernel/head.o init/init.o --start-group arch/alpha/k
ernel/kernel.o arch/alpha/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o arch/alpha/math-emu/built-in.o /usr/src/linux-2.5.24/arch
/alpha/lib/lib.a lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.5.24/arch/alpha/lib/lib.a drivers/built-in.o sound/sound.o net/network.o --end-group -o v
mlinux
drivers/built-in.o(.data+0x37118): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
alpha:/usr/src/linux-2.5.24# ld -v
GNU ld version 2.12.1
alpha:/usr/src/linux-2.5.24#

> I'm not hitting this bug, but for me, ./arch/alpha/kernel/head.o isn't
> build (actually, there aren't any .o files in that directory), even if
> I try to explicitely compile head.o by 'make arch/alpha/kernel/head.o'.
> Any hints there?
> 
None, but could you please tell me what version of binutils you're
using?

Thanks,
Jurriaan
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