Hi all- I have successfully built the 2.4.16 kernel several times but suddenly cannot. I am running an up-to- date Woody and am wondering if some recent package update(s) might be the problem. Does anyone have any idea what would cause the linker output in the attached text?
TIA, -=greg
ld -m elf_i386 -T /home/greg/build/linux-2.4.16/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/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/char/drm/drm.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o drivers/cdrom/driver.o drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/pnp/pnp.o drivers/video/video.o \ net/network.o \ /home/greg/build/linux-2.4.16/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /home/greg/build/linux-2.4.16/lib/lib.a /home/greg/build/linux-2.4.16/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \ --end-group \ -o vmlinux drivers/char/char.o(.data+0x46b4): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit' drivers/net/net.o(.data+0x174): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit' drivers/net/net.o(.data+0xd74): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1