Re: build failure in 2.4.20

[David Ronis]

Ok, with Marc-Christian's change and my guess about --oformat I am
able to build and install the kernel and its modules.  It actually
even boots.

One last thing, the kernel version seems to have regressed a bit.  It
thinks it's 2.4.0.

Dave, I haven't had a chance to look at the URL you suggested yet (and
probably do not have the expertise to fix things the way you're
suggesting either); is Marc-Christian's fix safe in the mean time?

David

Dave Jones writes:
 > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:09:57PM +0100, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
 >  > > drivers/net/net.o(.data+0xd4): undefined reference to `local symbols in
 >  > > discarded section .text.exit' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
 >  > > It sounds like this is a problem with ld or as, but I'm not sure.  Any
 >  > > suggestions?
 >  > $editor arch/i386/vmlinux.lds
 >  > 
 >  > you'll see starting at line 67 this:
 >  > 
 >  >   /* Sections to be discarded */
 >  >   /DISCARD/ : {
 >  >         *(.text.exit)
 >  >         *(.data.exit)
 >  >         *(.exitcall.exit)
 >  >         }
 >  > 
 >  > remove this:
 >  > 
 >  >         *(.text.exit)
 > 
 > This may get rid of the compile error, but this is *not* the correct way
 > to fix this problem. The correct fix is to run reference_discarded [1]
 > to find out which driver is causing the problem, and add __devexit
 > tags where relevant.
 > 
 > 		Dave
 > 
 > [1] http://kernelnewbies.org/scripts/reference_discarded.pl
 > 
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 > | Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
 > | SuSE Labs