Re: [RFC] Force build error on undefined symbols

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 03:35:19PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 04:24:01PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > 
> > > Therefore, I propose the following patch to detect undefined symbols
> > > in the final image and force an error if this is the case.
> > > 
> > > Comments?
> > 
> > Do we really want to do this for all architectures?
> > You could use something like the attached to restrict it to arm.
> 
> Unfortunately, some people got it into their heads to use the top
> level vmlinux directly, so this wouldn't always catch the problem.
> It really needs to be done immediately after vmlinux is generated
> to ensure that all cases are caught.
OK.

How does output from your nm look?
My version (GNU nm 2.14.90.0.5 20030722 (SuSE Linux)) looks like this:
c04e56ac B zone_table

So I assume an undefined symbol would look like this:
00000000 U undef_symbol

This is not matched by "egrep -q '^ +U '"

	Sam