Re: broken 5.5 build system

Michael Brown <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On a fresh Debian system I got this:
> 
> <screenshot>
> stappers@coco:~
> $ cd /usr/src/etherboot/etherboot-5.5/src/
> stappers@coco:/usr/src/etherboot/etherboot-5.5/src
> $ make bin/rtl8139.zdsk
> ld -N  -T arch/i386/scripts/i386.lds  -u obj_zdskprefix --defsym
> check_obj_zdskprefix=obj_zdskprefix   -u obj_rtl8139 --defsym
> check_obj_rtl8139=obj_rtl8139   -u obj_config --defsym
> check_obj_config=obj_config  --defsym pci_vendor_id=0x10ec --defsym
> pci_device_id=0x8139 bin/blib.a -o bin/rtl8139.zdsk.tmp \
>         -Map bin/rtl8139.zdsk.tmp.map
> bin/blib.a(zdskprefix.o)(.prefix+0x92): In function `start_runtime':
> : undefined reference to `decompress16'

Correct; compressed images are currently not working.  (There are issues 
relating to dealing with ROM images and -DKEEP_IT_REAL that require some 
thought.)

> Is it a linker problem that encountered is?

No.  Build bin/rtl8139.dsk and it will work.

Michael



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