On Tuesday 03 August 2010 15:47, Michal Marek wrote: > On 29.7.2010 01:47, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > SECTIONS { > > + > > + /* Coalesce sections produced by gcc -ffunction-sections */ > > + .text 0 : AT(0) { *(.text .text.[A-Za-z0-9_$^]*) } > > + > > + /* Coalesce sections produced by gcc -fdata-sections */ > > + .rodata 0 : AT(0) { *(.rodata .rodata.[A-Za-z0-9_$^]*) } > > + .data 0 : AT(0) { *(.data .data.[A-Za-z0-9_$^]*) } > > + .bss 0 : AT(0) { *(.bss .bss.[A-Za-z0-9_$^]*) } > > + > > /DISCARD/ : { *(.discard) } > > } > > I'm now getting > > ld:/home/mmarek/linux-2.6/scripts/module-common.lds:23: ignoring invalid > character `^' in script > ld:/home/mmarek/linux-2.6/scripts/module-common.lds:26: ignoring invalid > character `^' in script > ld:/home/mmarek/linux-2.6/scripts/module-common.lds:27: ignoring invalid > character `^' in script > ld:/home/mmarek/linux-2.6/scripts/module-common.lds:28: ignoring invalid > character `^' in script > > when linking modules and a similar warning when linking vmlinux (caused > by the next patch in series). I tried writing the carets as \^, but that > doesn't help at all... Yep, I can confirm it. The binutils fix to allow caret might be trivial, and will allow us to use much better pattern: [^.]* I created a Fedora bug for it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621742 So far, please remove these three patches from kbuild tree. (I see that modpost patch is in Linus tree. Thanks!) -- vda -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html