by Hello,
I have been trying to recompile my kernel for the last few days.
I just installed slackware 3.0 (Jan release) with gcc 5.7.0.
I have religiously read the relevant HOWTO's, etc... I make
config, make dep, make clean. Finally when I 'make zImage', the
machine churns away for about 20 min, then I get a ton
of the following errors:
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make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/mm'
ld -qmagic -Ttext 0xfffe0 arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o init/version.o \
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o net/net.o ipc/ipc.o \
fs/filesystems.a \
drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/net/net.a \
/usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a -o vmlinux
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 000fffe0
arch/i386/kernel/head.o(.text+0x18): undefined reference to `__edata'
arch/i386/kernel/head.o(.text+0x1d): undefined reference to `__end'
arch/i386/kernel/head.o(.text+0x7f): undefined reference to `_x86'
arch/i386/kernel/head.o(.text+0xa3): undefined reference to `_x86'
arch/i386/kernel/head.o(.text+0xcf): undefined reference to `_x86'
^
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cutting out similar errors (many, many, too many!)
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kernel/kernel.o(.data+0x454): undefined reference to `floppy_track_buffer'
kernel/kernel.o(.data+0x2aa0): undefined reference to `swapper_pg_dir'
mm/mm.o(.text+0x7f): undefined reference to `swapper_pg_dir'
mm/mm.o(.text+0x2c0): undefined reference to `swapper_pg_dir'
mm/mm.o(.text+0x2f6): undefined reference to `swapper_pg_dir'
fs/fs.o(.text+0xdd7a): undefined reference to `sys_call_table'
fs/fs.o(.text+0xe6ff): undefined reference to `sys_call_table'
fs/fs.o(.text+0xe95a): undefined reference to `sys_call_table'
fs/fs.o(.text+0xea5b): undefined reference to `sys_call_table'
fs/fs.o(.text+0xec1e): undefined reference to `sys_call_table'
floppy.o(.text+0xc3a): undefined reference to `floppy_track_buffer'
floppy.o(.text+0xc49): undefined reference to `floppy_track_buffer'
floppy.o(.text+0xc50): undefined reference to `floppy_track_buffer'
floppy.o(.text+0x2a88): undefined reference to `floppy_track_buffer'
floppy.o(.text+0x2b56): undefined reference to `floppy_track_buffer'
floppy.o(.text+0x3500): more undefined references to `floppy_track_buffer' follow
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
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The system is a dx4-120 PCI, 8MB RAM. I hve been using Loadlin
to boot to Linux. Can anyone help me rectify the situation. I think
there is some problem with gcc on my system...(?)
Thanks for any assistance,
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Paul Colucci
Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Dept. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
State University of New York at Buffalo