Re: Compile problems on alpha: 2.6.6, 2.6.7-rc2

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:00:25AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> I'm not quite sure what's causing this, but I get the following error
> message (make V=1):
>         ld  -static -N  -T arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.s 
> arch/alpha/kernel/head.o   init/built-in.o --start-group  usr/built-in.o  
> arch/alpha/kernel/built-in.o  arch/alpha/mm/built-in.o  
> arch/alpha/math-emu/built-in.o  kernel/built-in.o  mm/built-in.o  
> fs/built-in.o  ipc/built-in.o  security/built-in.o  crypto/built-in.o  
> lib/lib.a  arch/alpha/lib/lib.a  lib/built-in.o  
> arch/alpha/lib/built-in.o  drivers/built-in.o  sound/built-in.o  
> net/built-in.o --end-group  -o .tmp_vmlinux1
> local symbol 0: discarded in section `.exit.text' from drivers/built-in.o
> make then aborts at this step.  At other times, I've gotten errors that
> read the same as the above line, for symbols "1" through "4", in order.
> I'm going to guess there's a problem with one of the drivers I've got 
> built-in to the kernel, but I haven't been able to figure much else out..

Could you try to locate it with scripts/reference_discard.pl, and if that
fail, post your .config (preferably compressed) so I can try to debug this
on my alphas?

Thanks.

-- wli