Compiling kernel 2.4.17 fails at link stage
Quoted 4 lines · Krishnakumar B
I am trying to compile kernel 2.4.17 (with davidm's patches linux-2.4.17-ia64-011226) using gcc-3.0.3 and binutils 2.11.92.0.12.3 20011121. I get the following error at final kernel link stage:
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arch/ia64/kernel/kernel.o(.IA_64.unwind.text.exit+0x0): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
It's a kernel bug exposed by recent binutils. You can either fix the kernel by making the references weak, or hack around the problem by adding -fnoinhibit-exec to the ld command line.
Alan