Re: kernel suddenly not linking

[Brandon N <bneill@yahoo.com>]

--- Greg Wiley <greg@orthogony.com> wrote:
> Hi all-
> 
> I have successfully built the 2.4.16 kernel several
> times but suddenly cannot.  I am running an up-to-
> date Woody and am wondering if some recent package
> update(s) might be the problem.  Does anyone have
> any idea what would cause the linker output in the
> attached text?
> 
> TIA,
>   -=greg
> 

I'm getting the exact same error, I just updated all my packages last
night.  I'll let you know what I find out.

Brandon

 
> > ld -m elf_i386 -T
/home/greg/build/linux-2.4.16/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds
> -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o
> init/main.o init/version.o \
>         --start-group \
>         arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o
> mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \
>          drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o
> drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o
> drivers/char/drm/drm.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o drivers/cdrom/driver.o
> drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/pnp/pnp.o
> drivers/video/video.o \
>         net/network.o \
>         /home/greg/build/linux-2.4.16/arch/i386/lib/lib.a
> /home/greg/build/linux-2.4.16/lib/lib.a
> /home/greg/build/linux-2.4.16/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \
>         --end-group \
>         -o vmlinux
> drivers/char/char.o(.data+0x46b4): undefined reference to `local
> symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
> drivers/net/net.o(.data+0x174): undefined reference to `local symbols
> in discarded section .text.exit'
> drivers/net/net.o(.data+0xd74): undefined reference to `local symbols
> in discarded section .text.exit'
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> 


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