Re: Kernel compilation error.......

["G. Soyez" <g.soyez@ulg.ac.be>]

Hi CraigT

On Merkidi 12 Decimbe 2001 12:38, C wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I recently upgraded my machine....via apt.....this included a glibc6/-dev
> upgrade amongst other things.....
> now when compiling a kernel...even one known to previously
> compile........it fails at this point every time
>
> drivers/net/net.o(.data+0xd4): undefined reference to `local symbols in
> discarded section .text.exit'
> make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux'
> make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2
>
> The versions of my curreent packages are:
> libc6          2.2.4-7
> libc6-dev      2.2.4-7
> kernel-package 7.75
> gcc            2.95.4-9
> gcc-2.95       2.95.4-0.01100
> make           3.79.1-10
>
> Any offered assistance in how to acertain further information about this
> bug would be apreciated

It seems that the bug comes from the binutils package and can be solved by 
downgrading binutils.
It also seems that it will be fixed in the kernel 2.4.17.

Gregor

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