[ENBD] depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in kernel 2.4.20

[Peter T. Breuer]

"A month of sundays ago ptb wrote:"
> Maybe modversions is broken in 2.4.20? The System.map shows normal
> symbols too:

OK - my toolchain is broken for modversions in 2.4.20 (at least).

I compiled 2.4.20 with modversions and all the kernel symbols had the
form

    printk__R_ver_printk

literally! Modules don't contain suffixes. Sysmap is clean too.

All my tools exceed the Changes version requirements (except gcc, by a
fraction).  It must be binutils that is broken, or util-linux, surely.
I'm using the binutils required for the 2.5 kernels, and I seem to
recall some warnings that came along with them.  Hmm.

ii  binutils       2.12.90.0.1-4  The GNU assembler, linker and binary utiliti
ii  util-linux     2.11b-4        Miscellaneous system utilities.
ii  gcc            2.95.2-13.1    The GNU C compiler.

I'll see if moving gcc up a fraction helps.

Peter