Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:21:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:21:18 -0500 Received: from jalon.able.es ([212.97.163.2]:5113 "EHLO jalon.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:21:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:26:42 +0100 From: "J.A. Magallon" To: Wakko Warner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unable to compile 2.4.14 on alpha Message-ID: <20020116002642.A1838@werewolf.able.es> In-Reply-To: <20020114212550.A17323@animx.eu.org> <20020115113213.A1539@werewolf.able.es> <20020115115530.A19073@animx.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <20020115115530.A19073@animx.eu.org>; from wakko@animx.eu.org on mar, ene 15, 2002 at 17:55:30 +0100 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.3.0 Lines: 42 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 20020115 Wakko Warner wrote: >> >arch/alpha/kernel/kernel.o(.exitcall.exit+0x0): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit' >> >> Too bew binutils. .17 works again. > >Are you saying that 2.4.17 works but prior doesn't? or were you refering to >binutils. > Recent binutils warn about symbols marked as discardable but referenced when the driver is built-in instead of modularized. Older ones just shut up. Original explanation: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100753194504523&w=2 Corrected mainly in 2.4.17-pre6 (and some leftovers in following pres). >From ChangeLog-2.4.17: pre6: ... - Create __devexit_p() function and use that on drivers which need it to make it possible to use newer binutils (Keith Owens) ... >Please keep the CC to linux-kernel as my spam filter is tagging your mail >server =( > OK. My ISP has reached the spam-black-lists ? I'm beginning to think that those lists are becoming useless. Everybody is there. Some day someone will manage to send just ONE message faking vger and the linux kernel list will be banned... -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:jamagallon@able.es Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.18-pre3-beo #5 SMP Sun Jan 13 02:14:04 CET 2002 i686 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/