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From: Ben Carrell <ben@xmission.com>
To: "Daniel T. Chen" <crimsun@email.unc.edu>
Cc: safemode <safemode@speakeasy.net>,
	real <haxmail@subdimension.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Compilation error with Kernels 2.4.16 && 2.5.X
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 23:41:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0C701C.8000606@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.21L1.0112040113310.59820-100000@login3.isis.unc.edu>

That would explain why I could compile fine when 2.4.16 was released, 
but not now....Thanks -- anytime frame you know of for a fix?

-Ben Carrell
ben@xmission.com

Daniel T. Chen wrote:

>Upon further investigation this is related to the specific version of
>binutils used in linking the kernel after compilation. Please see
>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=122179&repeatmerged=yes
>for more details. Additionally, not all kernel .configs will trigger
>it. The USB segment is definitely in a common point, though. 2.2 kernels
>don't seem to exhibit it; but any 2.4 with certain .configs will.
>
>---
>Dan Chen                 crimsun@email.unc.edu
>GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.asc
>
>On 4 Dec 2001, safemode wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 09:54, real wrote:
>>
>>>drivers/char/char.o(.data+0x46b4): undefined reference to `local symbols 
>>>in discarded section .text.exit'
>>>drivers/net/net.o(.data+0xbb4): undefined reference to `local symbols in 
>>>discarded section .text.exit'
>>>drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o(.data+0xb4): undefined reference to `local 
>>>symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
>>>drivers/usb/usbdrv.o(.data+0x234): undefined reference to `local symbols 
>>>in discarded section .text.exit'
>>>make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
>>>
>>Same here.  How many other people are finding this to be a problem?   
>>same problem with 2.4.17-pre2  
>>
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-04  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-03 14:54 Compilation error with Kernels 2.4.16 && 2.5.X real
2001-12-04  5:10 ` safemode
2001-12-04  6:16   ` Daniel T. Chen
2001-12-04  6:41     ` Ben Carrell [this message]
2001-12-04  6:44       ` Daniel T. Chen

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