Compile failure with v1.3.88

Madhusudana Rao (madhur@sasi.ernet.in)
Sat, 13 Apr 1996 23:55:19 +0500 (IST)


With the following :

- Kernel modules 1.3.69
- Dynamic linker (ld.so) 1.7.14
- GNU CC 2.7.2
- Binutils 2.6.0.12
- Linux C Library 5.3.9

while compiling the kernel, I get :

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-1.3.88/include -E -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA setup.S -o setup.s
as86 -0 -a -o setup.o setup.s
ld86 -0 -s -o setup setup.o
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-1.3.88/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
gcc -I/usr/src/linux-1.3.88/include -O2 -DSTDC_HEADERS -o xtract xtract.c
gcc -I/usr/src/linux-1.3.88/include -O2 -DSTDC_HEADERS -o piggyback piggyback.c
./xtract /usr/src/linux-1.3.88/vmlinux | gzip -9 | ./piggyback > piggy.o
Non-GCC header of 'system'
Compressed size 20.
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-1.3.88/include -traditional -c head.S
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-1.3.88/include -O2 -DSTDC_HEADERS -c misc.c
-o misc.o
ld -qmagic -Ttext 0xfe0 -o vmlinux head.o misc.o piggy.o
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000000000fe0
misc.o: In function `fill_inbuf':
misc.o(.text+0x1c1c): undefined reference to `input_data'
misc.o(.text+0x1c21): undefined reference to `input_len'
misc.o(.text+0x1c37): undefined reference to `input_data'
make[2]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-1.3.88/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
make[1]: *** [compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-1.3.88/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [zlilo] Error 2

/Madhu