You wrote: > Ach. Looks like I'm not the only one. > > I gather that the linker is is now less forgiving. > Oh thanks... I hoped for this message... since hours I tried to compile, thought even, that I try to use a broken module, but it looks just like your error. I compiled 2.4.16 several times before from kernel.org-source on non debian-systems, and its working great. The swapping-problem doesn't seem to exist anymore. But today this linking problem... I even thought it could be a problem with gcc-3.0 and installed gcc-2.95.4 and updated the binutils, but the result is the same.
The Debian-package seems to be broken... I'll give the kernel.org-source a try. Sven