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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news2.acs.oakland.edu!news.tacom.army.mil!ulowell.uml.edu!umassd.edu!umass.edu!cam-news-feed5.bbnplanet.com!cass.ma02.bull.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!not-for-mail From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: link errors in kernel build Date: 25 Oct 1996 23:06:27 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 37 Message-ID: <54rh5j$a1@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <54ei66$1s0@uuneo.neosoft.com> <54puko$897@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.144 In article <54puko$897@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) wrote: > >> >> I'm getting the following output at the end of a kernel build: >> >> loading kernel >> sys_process.o: Undefined symbol `_vm_object_reference' referenced from >> text segment >> sys_process.o: Undefined symbol `_vm_object_reference' referenced from >> text segment > >Do you perchance suffer from an empty .o file around? This can happen >if the machine crashes while you were compiling. Its timestamp is >then ``recent'', so make won't rebuild it. (That's why make normally >deletes the target under work if you hit ^C, unless you've marked it >as .PRECIOUS in the Makefile.) No, I've got a bunch of vm_*.o files in my compile dir. vm_object.o, however, is only 93 bytes in size, which seems a little low to me. >j@uriah 691% grep ^vm_object_reference /sys/vm/*.c >/sys/vm/vm_object.c:vm_object_reference(object) > >So watch out for vm_object.o. I'm wondering if something in my kernel config is triggering some conditional compilation thing somewhere. Man, this one's like the proverbial needle in the haystack! I'll let you know if I discover anything. :-) -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |