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From: cgd@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SIGSEGV while linking kernel (???)
Date: 21 Feb 93 17:30:57
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: adamd@rhi.hi.is's message of 21 Feb 93 21:25:44 GMT
In article <6383@krafla.rhi.hi.is> adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) writes:
>Do I need to patch ld before building a new kernel, or is there some other
>trick I can use? A few seconds into the link phase, ld gets killed by
>signal 11. running ld directly from a shell gives a 250+ kB core file.
this has happened to me occasionally, generally after my machine
crashed while making some kernel object files...
look for zero-length object files, and stuff like that in the place
where you're building the kernel.
also try "size *.o" and remove anything it complains about.
chris
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