[ipxe-devel] Error: undefined symbol `_tmp_start' referenced in expression

[Joshua C.]

2012/5/1 Joshua C. <joshuacov at googlemail.com>:
> When try to compile bin/10ec8168.lkrn with the latest git as of
> 01.05.2012 I get the following error:
>
>  [AR] bin/blib.a
> ar: creating bin/blib.a
>  [LD] bin/10ec8168.tmp
> arch/i386/scripts/i386.lds:1: undefined symbol `_tmp_start' referenced
> in expression
> make: *** [bin/10ec8168.tmp] Error 1
>
>
> I remember seeing this error some days ago but can't recollect when
> exactly it firs appeared. The realtek driver has been rewritten in the
> last month so I guess this has something to do with the driver. I have
> all deps installed (gcc, binutils-devel, make, perl, syslinux, zlib)
> but cannot figure out how to fix this. Google also didn't help much
> but pointing to some gcc flags.
>
>
> --
>
> -- joshua

It turned out that the linker was the culprit of this. Now it compiles fine.

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-- joshua