Re: can't compile 2.4.16

[Daniel T. Chen]

% bzcat ~/tmp/kernel/patch-2.4.17-rc1.bz2|grep devexit|wc -l
81

So no, the fixes have not been reverted. Also, John and I have submitted
additional patches for __devexit.

For Debian, the last known version of binutils in sid that didn't cause
these messages was purged a while ago. Look in /var/cache/apt/archives/
if you keep them there, or perhaps someone you know may have it lying
around.

I'll take a look at net/ tonight, but drivers/ should be completely
converted to __devexit as of John's patch
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100848516505140&w=2).

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On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Tony Hoyle wrote:

> Has this fix been reverted?  It isn't in -pre8 or -rc1.
> 
> 
> net/network.o(.text.lock+0x17b8): undefined reference to `local symbols 
> in discarded section .text.exit'
> 
> It's kind of impossible to compile the kernel at the moment (even the 
> CONFIG_HOTPLUG fix mentioned doesn't work).
> 
> I tried downgrading binutils & it didn't work.. possibly I didn't go 
> back far enough.  What is the newest version that is supposed to work?
> 
> Tony