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Description of problem:
Kernels 2.4.9-16/17.3, 2.4.16-0.4/0.6 fails to build with
binutils-2.11.92.0.12-2. Builds with binutils-2.11.92.0.7-2

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
see above

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Compile from source
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  Segmentation fault at kallsyms pass 1

Additional info:

Following is the output from building two kernels (similar for other kernels):
kernel-2.4.9-16:(gcc-2.96-101)
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.9/linux/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Wno-unused -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686  -E -D__GENKSYMS__ i386_ksyms.c
| /sbin/genksyms  -k 2.4.9 >
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.9/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver.tmp
mv
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.9/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver.tmp
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.9/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver
md5sum: WARNING: 2 of 13 computed checksums did NOT match
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.9/linux/include/linux/modversions.h was
updated
+ make -s include/linux/version.h
+ echo BUILDING A KERNEL FOR debug i686...
BUILDING A KERNEL FOR debug i686...
+ make -s -j 1 bzImage
init/main.c: In function `start_kernel':
init/main.c:740: warning: implicit declaration of function `kiobuf_setup'
fork.c:621:2: warning: #warning Do something about KSTACK here ...
traps.c: In function `callout_dbfunc':
traps.c:449: warning: int format, dbfunc_t arg (arg 3)
dmi_scan.c: In function `broken_ps2_resume':
dmi_scan.c:402: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:1069: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1153: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1239: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1313: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1324: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1335: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1410: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1421: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1432: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1912: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:2010: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:210: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:304: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
acpitable.c:165:10: warning: #warning FIXME __va works for 1 page only it
seems!!
kallsyms pass 1
make[1]: *** [kallsyms] Segmentation fault
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.57204 (%build)

kernel-2.4.16-0.6:(gcc-3.1.0-0.10)
kallsyms pass 1
make[1]: *** [kallsyms] Segmentation fault
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.23137 (%build)

#>rpm -q modutils binutils sh-utils bash patch gnupg
modutils-2.4.12-1
binutils-2.11.92.0.12-2
sh-utils-2.0.11-7
bash-2.05a-1
patch-2.5.4-10
gnupg-1.0.6-3