Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:32:24 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fixed: CRC32=y && 8193TOO=m unresolved symbols |
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On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:30:49PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 16:28, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > You can't EXPORT_SYMBOL from a header. > > > > This sounds like Kconfig or Makefile bugs to me... all the > > export-symbol stuff should already be in place. > > > > Can you post your .config and the exact build errors you are getting? > > It's because lib/crc32.o isn't actually _referenced_ by anything, hence > isn't actually pulled into vmlinux from lib/lib.a. > > My fix in the 2.4 tree is to export its symbols from kernel/ksyms.c > #ifdef CONFIG_CRC32, and to export its symbols from lib/crc32.c > #ifndef CONFIG_CRC32.
That makes sense.
Any opinions on moving it out of lib/lib.a?
We have our own conditional linking system, essentially, so that's what I would prefer.
Jeff
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