Re: KDB-ized RH 2.4.18-X kernel?

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:49 25-3-2003 +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:47:12 -0600,
> Dan Yocum <yocum@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I compiled the kernel-source...i386.rpm.
> >
> >Maybe Keith might have some insight into this?  It looks like it's a linker
> >problem...
> >
> >Keith?
>
> Sorry, my telepathy is not working today.  Perhaps if I had some
> details of the patches used, the compile steps and the errors then I
> might be able to comment.

I reported this problem earlier as well when I was working on the 2.4.18-24 
kernel IIRC and it had to do with the linking.

You commented on this that the symbols were not exported right. Here is the 
first email I sent. 1.2pre5 was hip then.

Cheers

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At 08:13 21-1-2003 +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:11:46 +0100,
> Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >At 10:24 20-1-2003 -0500, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> >> >
> >>Any time I've had "internal compiler error", it's been a hardware
> >>problem.  ie bad heatsing or memory.  I suggest running memtest86.com's
> >>test utility.
> >
> >That's not the case here. In fact the error is that the kdb symbols are not
> >ending up in the right place when it is linking as far I can tell.
>
> Details please, my telepathy is not working this morning ...

kallsyms pass 1
init/main.o: In function `parse_options':
init/main.o(.text.init+0x5e6): undefined reference to `kdb_on'
init/main.o(.text.init+0x5eb): undefined reference to `kdb_flags'
init/main.o(.text.init+0x622): undefined reference to `kdb_on'
init/main.o(.text.init+0x64f): undefined reference to `kdb_on'
init/main.o(.text.init+0x674): undefined reference to `kdb_flags'
init/main.o(.text.init+0x67f): undefined reference to `kdb_on'
init/main.o(.text.init+0x687): undefined reference to `kdb_flags'

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/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.18/linux/arch/i386/kdb/kdba.o(.text+0x2aba): 
undefined reference to `kdb_printf'
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.18/linux/arch/i386/kdb/kdba.o(.text+0x2ac4): 
undefined reference to `kdb_symbol_print'
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.18/linux/arch/i386/kdb/kdba.o(.text+0x2ad1): 
undefined reference to `kdb_printf'
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.18/linux/arch/i386/kdb/kdba.o(.text+0x2ae9): 
undefined reference to `kdb_printf'
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.18/linux/arch/i386/kdb/kdba.o(.text+0x2af3): 
undefined reference to `kdb_symbol_print'
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.18/linux/arch/i386/kdb/kdba.o(.text+0x2afd): 
undefined reference to `kdb_printf'
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.18/linux/arch/i386/kdb/kdba.o(.text+0x2b07): 
undefined reference to `kdb_symbol_print'
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.18/linux/arch/i386/kdb/kdba.o(.text+0x2b14): 
undefined reference to `kdb_printf'
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.18/linux/arch/i386/kdb/kdba.o: In function 
`fetch_data':
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.18/linux/arch/i386/kdb/kdba.o(.text+0x2b79): 
undefined reference to `kdb_printf'
make[1]: *** [kallsyms] Fout 1
make: *** [vmlinux] Fout 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.14321 (%build)

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Seth
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