[Linux-ia64] Compiling kernel 2.4.17 fails at link stage

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:31:24PM -0800, Grant Grundler wrote:
> Alan Modra wrote:
> > It's a kernel bug exposed by recent binutils.  You can either fix the
> > kernel by making the references weak, or hack around the problem by
> > adding -fnoinhibit-exec to the ld command line.
> 
> I had added "-fnoinhibit-exec" to LINKFLAGS in linux/arch/ia64/Makefile
> and got:

Sorry, typo.  --noinhibit-exec

> So how do I "make references weak"?

extern int foo __attribute__ ((weak));