cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk kmod.mk

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 27 October 2005 04:29 pm, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:15:28PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> > > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   Installing debug modules was a bad idea -- I bogusly assumed that
> > > >   our kernel linker will only load PT_LOAD segments, apparently not.
> > > >   Instead, produce .dbg objects from .debug objects, and install
> > > >   them together with non-debug objects, as described in objcopy(1).
> > >
> > > is that because of this change?
> >
> > Yes.  I sent a patch for kldxref(8) that fixes this for review to
> > amd64 at .  These messages are harmless otherwise.
>
> Wouldn't it be cleaner (and potentially simpler) to fix this by making
> the kernel linker skip non-PT_LOAD sections?
>
> (I just peeked at sys/kern/link_elf.c and it looks to me like it
> *already* DTRT, so what exactly is the problem?)

amd64 uses link_elf_obj.c which loads raw .o files, not .so files.

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