2.4.18-pre4: undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
Dear ladies and gentleman,
5 minutes ago, I tried to compile Linux 2.4.18-pre4 on my Debian Sid box. I did this from a cleanly unpacked/patched kernel-source. The build failed for the following reason:
ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \ --start-group \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \ drivers/parport/driver.o drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/char/agp/agp.o drivers/char/drm/drm.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/video/video.o drivers/i2c/i2c.o \ net/network.o \ /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \ --end-group \ -o vmlinux
drivers/media/media.o: In function `bttv_probe':
drivers/media/media.o(.text.init+0x15db): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
Would you be so friendly to fix this bug please? :)
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I forgot to tell you some things that could be important:
Debian Version: 3.0/Sid
Version of binutils: 2.11.92.0.12.3
Version of gcc: 2.95.4
After downgrading the binutils-package to version 2.11.92.0.10, it works just fine.
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