Solved: Problems compiling kernel 2.4.16 under woody
Patching kernel 2.4.16 to 2.4.17-rc1 did not do it.
I have had to downgrade binutils to version 2.9.5.0.37-1.
Thank you.
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 10:41:17AM +0100, Armin Wegner wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have installed one of the first potato releases from cd on a
> blank hard disk and compiled kernel 2.4.16. Fine.
>
> I then upgraded with apt-get to yesterdays woody/testing
> and no longer manage to compile the same sources.
> I have made
> make mrproper
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make bzImage
>
> I have just set the processor to 'athlon' the chipset and the sound to 'via'.
> One of the last steps of 'make bzImage', the linking of the object files,
> failed with this error message
>
> drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o(.data+0xb4): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
>
> If I do not change the standard configuration, the kernel compiles fine.
> What does that mean? May I have missed installing an important package?
>
> The program/package versions are
> gcc 2:2.95.4-8
> binutils 2.11.92.0.12.3-3
>
> I failed to compile kernel 2.4.14 for the same reasons.
> I did not had success with gcc 2.95.2 and gcc 3.0.2 either.
>
> Armin
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
Reply to: