Re: linux-2.4.19-pre7: undefined reference to

[Anton Altaparmakov]

Hi James,

I have already submitted a patch to fix this earlier today... and in fact 
it is identical to yours. (-:

Cheers,

Anton

At 14:50 16/04/02, James Bourne wrote:
>Hi all,
>When compiling 2.4.19-pre7 I am getting undefined reference to
>`page_cache_release' errors on linking vmlinux:
>
>make CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__
>-I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
>-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer
>-pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 " -C  arch/i386/lib
>make[1]: Entering directory /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
>make all_targets
>make[2]: Entering directory /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
>make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all_targets'.
>make[2]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
>make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
>ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds
>-e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o
>arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o init/do_mounts.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/scsi/scsidrv.o
>drivers/cdrom/driver.o
>drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/video/video.o drivers/md/mddev.o \
>         net/network.o \
>         /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a
>/usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \
>         --end-group \
>         -o vmlinux
>fs/fs.o: In function `create_data_partitions':
>fs/fs.o(.text+0x2594d): undefined reference to `page_cache_release'
>fs/fs.o(.text+0x25a05): undefined reference to `page_cache_release'
>fs/fs.o: In function `get_disk_objid':
>fs/fs.o(.text+0x25d63): undefined reference to `page_cache_release'
>fs/fs.o(.text+0x25ddd): undefined reference to `page_cache_release'
>fs/fs.o(.text+0x25e18): undefined reference to `page_cache_release'
>fs/fs.o(.text+0x25ef6): more undefined references to `page_cache_release'
>follow
>make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1