linux-kernel - Re: alpha compile failure (srm

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Date:	Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:04:50 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
	Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@...com>
Subject: Re: alpha compile failure (srm_printk)

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 08:05:08PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
> Retested this compile error with todays 2.6.23-rc1+git, still the same.
> 
> > >   LD      arch/alpha/boot/bootloader
> > > arch/alpha/boot/bootloader.lds:25: undefined symbol `srm_printk' referenced in expression
> > 
> > I was unable to repeoduce these errors on 2.6.22-rc4 with your config.
> 
> Hmm. Just make works, make bootimage does not. I debugged this further 
> today and I can not see how it can work.
> 
> The link command in question is
> ld   -static -uvsprintf -T   arch/alpha/boot/bootloader.lds arch/alpha/boot/head.o arch/alpha/boot/main.o -o arch/alpha/boot/bootloader
> and it still tells
> arch/alpha/boot/bootloader.lds:25: undefined symbol `srm_printk' referenced in expression
> 
> arch/alpha/boot/bootloader.lds contains a single related line referring 
> to srm_printk:
> printk = srm_printk;
> This only seems to define an alias to srm_printk so not important (and 
> unused)?

Hi Meelis.
I took the time to investige this a bit. The relevant files in
this case (arch/alpha/MAkefile + boot/Makefile has not seen many changes
when browsing the git tree.
So I looked back a bit further in the bitkeeper based tree.

Before boot/Makefile were converted to kbuild style bootloader indeed
referenced $(LIBS). That was lost in the process.
So adding $(LIBS_Y) is the right thing to do.

The linker error you get is due to kasprintf uses kmalloc and
it gets pulled in when srm_printf uses vsprintf.

The fix is to split kasprintf out to a separate file to
avoid pulling in more stuff than necessary.

PS. I had trouble compiling objstrip and had to due a lot of ugly
hacks before it compiles. I assume it is a toolchain issue..

	Sam
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