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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	jdike@addtoit.com, kai@germaschewski.name, sam@ravnborg.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 - Fix UML build
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:45:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040817144527.GA7286@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040816221017.018b0ef9.akpm@osdl.org>

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:10:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:02:21AM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > > The undefined symbol checking is continuing to cause UML pain.  This time,
> > > it picked up a bunch of 'w' symbols as undefined.  They were present in the
> > > 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 vmlinux and caused no problems for the final link, so I added
> > > them as a second special case to mksysmap (and I just noticed that I forgot
> > > a comment there - I can submit a patch for that if there's demand for one).
> > 
> > Likewise for sparc64; the 'w' symbols are showing up as 'undefined'
> > there too. Probably because [^w] isn't behaving as expected.
> > 
> 
> Sigh.  That patch is causing a ton of grief.  But Russell's reasons for
> needing it on ARM were solid, and it is a bit weird for any architecture to
> have undefined symbols in vmlinux.  I guess we persist.
Please note that the functionality is moved to scripts/mksysmap,
so Russell's original ldchk needs to be backed out.

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-17 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-12  4:14 [PATCH 1/3] 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 - Fix UML build Jeff Dike
2004-08-15 22:06 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-17  6:02   ` Jeff Dike
2004-08-17  5:06     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17  5:10       ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-17 14:45         ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2004-08-17 12:51           ` Russell King
2004-08-17  5:08     ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-17 19:15       ` Jeff Dike
2004-08-17 18:26         ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-18  2:58           ` Jeff Dike
2004-08-18 18:28           ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-08-17  8:55     ` Andreas Schwab
2004-08-17 18:17       ` Jeff Dike

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