depmod: Unresolved symbols in .../hostap.o: memcmp
Peter S. Mazinger
ps.m at gmx.net
Wed Jan 11 20:11:41 UTC 2006
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Doyle, Patrick wrote:
> Once again, I am looking for pointers for where to look for the source of a
> problem.
>
> I am compiling a buildroot environment for a Soekris net4521 target with the
> "Generic wireless access point" and "Generic firewall" options turned on.
>
> When I build this, it fails when running depmod. I am at a loss to
> understand why depmod would complain about not being able to find
> 'memcmp()', when it seems as though it found 'memcpy()', 'memset()', etc...
> fine. What's more confusing is that System.map lists both memcpy and
> memcmp.
>
> Could I have a broken depmod on my build system (a SuSE 9.1 box)?
>
> Is there something obvious I'm missing?
>
> --wpd
Are you using gcc-3.4.x to build the kernel-2.4, applied the
OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE patch to gcc and you enabled the option using -Os
instead of -O2? You need a patch (used in gentoo for ex) else memcmp gets
optimized away.
Peter
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