Re: debian unstable and 2.4.16-pre8...

[Rob Hensley <zoid@zoid.staticky.com>]

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Rob Hensley
E-email:      zoid@staticky.com
Text Message: 5135186731@airtouch.net

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Burton W wrote:

> downgrade your binutils to avoid this kernel error.
>
> --
> Burton Windle                           burton@fint.org
> Linux: the "grim reaper of innocent orphaned children."
>           from /usr/src/linux-2.4.0/init/main.c:655
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Rob Hensley wrote:
>
> > Here's what I've got installed:
> >
> > binutils	2.11.92.0.12.3-3
> > gcc		2:2.95.4-9
> > gcc-3.0		1:3.0.3-0pre011209
> > libc6		2.2.4-7
> >
> > And here are the steps I took to compiling my kernel:
> >
> > 1.) Got the 2.4.16 source and the pre8 patch and put them both in /usr/src
> > 2.) tar zxvf linux-2.4.16.tar.gz
> > 3.) gzip -cd patch-2.4.17-pre8.gz | patch -p0
> > 4.) I then copied my old kernel .config to /usr/src/linux and ran
> >     make oldconfig
> > 5.) Everything went fine with make oldconfig, so I went ahead and did
> >     make dep
> > 6.) After make dep, everything still went fine, so I did make bzImage
> > 7.) During make bzImage I got the following error:
> >
> >     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 \
> >         --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/acpi/acpi.o drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o
> > drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o
> > drivers/char/agp/agp.o drivers/char/drm/drm.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o
> > drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394drv.o drivers/cdrom/driver.o
> > drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia.o
> > drivers/net/pcmcia/pcmcia_net.o drivers/net/wireless/wireless_net.o
> > drivers/video/video.o drivers/usb/usbdrv.o drivers/input/inputdrv.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
> > drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia.o(.data+0x1294): undefined reference to `local
> > symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
> > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> >
> > If anyone has any clue how I can go about fixing this, or you need more
> > information about my installation, or somethin' else, please feel free to
> > ask, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > Rob Hensley
> > E-email:      zoid@staticky.com
> > Text Message: 5135186731@airtouch.net
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