Hi, after upgrading an unstable release this week and building a 2.4.16 kernel the following error occured:
error: undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .data.exit later I messed up the machine, so here are the things I've written down or can remember: net.o and char.o where the files the error occured. I found the following on the binutils-list http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-11/msg00193.html and there was http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2001-11/msg00000.html So I removed .text.exit from the DISCARD section in arch/i386/vmlinux.lds and everything went fine and the built kernel just run fine. ld version was afair 20011121. the 2.4.9 I build some weeks before had the same problem after the upgrade so I think it's really the binutils causing the problem. But, is it really the binutils or is it the kernel-source? Since I cannot make a kernel under debian you're the first I send these lines to, maybe it's better to downgrade to the former binutils, but where shall I send a bug-report to, the kernel people or the binutils people? please excuse my "german english" so long tho
