Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

[Jean Delvare]

On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:20 +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> The defconfig make fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with following error
> 
>   CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
>   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>   GEN     .version
>   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>   UPD     include/linux/compile.h
>   CC      init/version.o
>   LD      init/built-in.o
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> drivers/built-in.o(.init.text+0x8d76): In function `dmi_id_init':
> : undefined reference to `__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much'
> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> 
> 
> # gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-59)
> 
> This was reported by Adrian Bunk http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/1/39

And by myself long before that...
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/1/308

Since then I have had a private report that upgrading libtool would
solve the issue, but I have to admit I'm a bit skeptical, as I don't
quite get how libtool would be involved in the kernel building process
at all.

-- 
Jean Delvare
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