I have experienced this as well. It appears to be because, on line 397 of net/core/rtnetlink.c, rtnetlink_rcv_skb() is flagged as 'extern'. An analysis of the offending object file with 'nm' shows that symbol as unresolved (type U). Apparently GCC 3.3 obeys the 'extern' keyword now even if the function is defined there (apparently why it never popped up till now). I replaced that 'extern' with a 'static' (I believe that, based on other neighboring functions, that's what was originally intended), and the kernel linked fine.
Also, there are some multiline string constants in some other modules (I encountered them in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_core.c and drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c) that caused the compiler to throw errors about no terminating " character. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
