Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:00:19 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, kai@germaschewski.name, sam@ravnborg.org,
       rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: Vincent Vanackere <vincent.vanackere@gmail.com>, keenanpepper@gmail.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1
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On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:24:14AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Vincent Vanackere <vincent.vanackere@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have the exact same problem. 
> >  .config is attached
> >  (this may be a debian specific problem as I'm running debian too)
> 
> OK, there are no vmlinux references to lib/parser.o's symbols.  So it isn't
> getting linked in.

That much I figured out after Vincent sent his bug report two weeks ago.

> In lib/Makefile, remove parser.o from the lib-y: rule and add
> 
> obj-y	+= parser.o

This I didn't find.

Is it really the intention to silently omit objects that are not 
referenced or could this be changed?

Why doesn't an EXPORT_SYMBOL create a reference?

cu
Adrian

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