Concerning the problems with __start___ksymtab and friends: I experienced
the same problems after upgrading to binutils-2.7.0.{3,9}, and they did
not go away after upgrading to the latest bin86 package.
After looking into the ld source, I found the place where __start
and __stop symbols are generated, but my copy of ld failed to do
so. Apparently, the binary package on sunsite is broken in this respect,
because as I recompiled and installed 2.7.0.9, everything worked fine
(use ./configure --host=i486-linux --prefix=/usr).
There's one pitfall, though -- the kernel Makefiles check for the presence
of encaps, and if it's there, invoke objdump with flags -k -q. These flags
are no longer supported. Remove encaps, and the kernel will pick objcopy
instead, which works flawlessly.
Cost me a whole day this bugger:-)
Cheers
Olaf
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| ceux qui ne peuvent pas mentir. R. Dorgeles