[gPXE-devel] Fwd: Re: [Xen-devel] tools: gpxe link error

Joshua Oreman oremanj at rwcr.net
Mon Jul 19 11:58:08 EDT 2010


On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Christoph Egger
<Christoph.Egger at amd.com> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] tools: gpxe link error
> Date: Monday 19 July 2010
> From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser at eu.citrix.com>
> To: "Egger, Christoph"
> <Christoph.Egger at amd.com>, "xen-devel at lists.xensource.com"
> <xen-devel at lists.xensource.com>
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> On 19/07/2010 15:47, "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger at amd.com> wrote:
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>> On Monday 19 July 2010 14:38:28 Christoph Egger wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I get a gpxe link error:
>>>
>>>   [AR] bin/blib.a
>>> ar: creating bin/blib.a
>>>   [LD] bin/rtl8139.rom.tmp
>>> arch/i386/scripts/i386.lds:1: undefined symbol 'obj_romprefix' referenced
>>> in expression
>>
>> With gmake V=1 I get:
>>
>> ld -m elf_i386 -N --no-check-sections -T arch/i386/scripts/i386.lds -u
>> obj_romprefix --defsym check_obj_romprefix=obj_romprefix -u
>> obj_rtl8139 --defsym check_obj_rtl8139=obj_rtl8139 -u obj_config --defsym
>> check_obj_config=obj_config --defsym pci_vendor_id=0 --defsym
> pci_device_id=0
>> bin/blib.a -o bin/rtl8139.rom.tmp \
>>                        -Map bin/rtl8139.rom.rmp.map
>> arch/i386/scripts/i386.lds:1: undefined symbol 'obj_romprefix' referenced in
>> expression

What version of binutils are you using? Also, the output of `nm
bin/blib.a' would be handy.

-- Josh

> No idea what that linker magic is intended to achieve. You'll be best off
> asking about it on the appropriate gpxe/etherboot dev list I expect. It does
> build for me on both my x86_32 and x86_64 GNU/Linux environments. Otherwise
> the best we can offer is an option to disable gpxe build, either manually or
> automatically for non-Linux environments. Obviously it would be nicer to fix
> the actual issue.
>
>  -- Keir
>
>>> Does this ring a bell to someone?
>>>
>>> Christoph
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