Bug#457491: Fwd: grub2: FTBFS on powerpc (__floatundisf in ls is not defined)

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 08:53:49PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Sunday 13 January 2008 13:19, Robert Millan wrote:
> > This is becoming a nightmare.  I think it's better if we just exclude
> > symbols starting with __ from our checks.  They aren't really meant for us
> > to mess with.
> 
> My original suggestion was that we could extract (required) symbols from 
> libgcc, and export them from the kernel. I think this can be automated.

Yes, but what's the point?  Doesn't libgcc already provide those symbols?

The problem seems to be only with our checker scripts, not with linking itself.

Unless I missed something of course..

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Robert Millan

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