undefined references when compiling kernel with binutils-2.11.92.0.12.3

[Jan Pospisil]

Hello, it has been posted so many times, and according to Richard Gooch it
should be fixed in 2.4.18-pre3, however I am still having the problem

undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit'

particullary with the CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848=y (as a module it works fine).

I have Athlon 850, Debian 3.0 (latest Sid), binutils-2.11.92.0.12.3-5,
gcc-3.0.3 and I tried both 2.4.17 and 2.4.18-pre4 with the same result.

Could someone help?

Thanks.
J.P.

Some listings follow:

...
ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext
arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o
init/version.o \
        --start-group \
        arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o
mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \
         drivers/parport/driver.o drivers/char/char.o
drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o
drivers/media/media.o drivers/char/agp/agp.o drivers/char/drm/drm.o
drivers/ide/idedriver.o drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o drivers/cdrom/driver.o
drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/video/video.o
drivers/usb/usbdrv.o drivers/i2c/i2c.o \
        net/network.o \
        /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \
        --end-group \
        -o vmlinux drivers/media/media.o:

In function `bttv_probe':
drivers/media/media.o(.text.init+0x1745): undefined reference to `local
symbols in discarded section .text.exit'

make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

...
Linux aither 2.4.17 #1 Fri Jan 18 16:30:51 CET 2002 i686 unknown

Gnu C                  3.0.3
Gnu make               3.79.1
util-linux             2.11n
mount                  2.11n
modutils               2.4.12
e2fsprogs              1.25
reiserfsprogs          3.x.0j
PPP                    2.4.1
Linux C Library        2.2.4
Dynamic linker (ldd)   2.2.4
Procps                 2.0.7
Net-tools              1.60
Console-tools          0.2.3
Sh-utils               2.0.11
Modules Loaded         openafs

...

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