Re: kldxref error in make installkernel

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 06:25:37AM +0000, Ben Kaduk wrote:
> Hi all -- sorry if I missed some note about this, but I'm trying to update
> from
> FreeBSD prolepsis.urh.uiuc.edu <http://prolepsis.urh.uiuc.edu>
> 7.0-CURRENTFreeBSD
> 7.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct 11 18:45:49 UTC 2005
> kaduk_at_prolepsis.urh.uiuc.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> i386
> to a -current supped at 22:28:34 central time (US).
> 
> Buildworld goes fine, but 'make kernel KERNCONF=PROLEPSIS' gives me some
> suprising output after installing modules, shown here
> [snip]
> ===> xe (install)
> install -o root -g wheel -m 555 if_xe.ko /boot/kernel
> install -o root -g wheel -m 555 if_xe.ko.symbols /boot/kernel
> ===> xl (install)
> install -o root -g wheel -m 555 if_xl.ko /boot/kernel
> install -o root -g wheel -m 555 if_xl.ko.symbols /boot/kernel
> kldxref /boot/kernel
> kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked
> kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked
> kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked
> kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked
> [snip]
> 
> with many more copies of the last message (the same as the number of
> modules, perhaps?). Has anyone else seen this, and should I be worried about
> it?
> 
They are harmless, you shouldn't be worried.  I've just committed a
bandaid for this to kldxref(8) that skips .symbols files.


Cheers,
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Ruslan Ermilov
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