On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, S kris wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to link the x.o and sample.a (contains y.o) using ld for > creating executable. I have used -defsym xsymbol=ysymbol as the linker > option for changing the symbol "xsymbol" defined in x.c to the symbol > "ysymbol" defined in y.c. But i get the error "Undefined symbol > 'ysymbol' referenced in x.o". What may be the reason for this error? Is > this something to do with archive? > > Please help me in fixing this? Symbol names have to be specified using the same mangling as they have in the compiler's asm output. The m68k port of gcc puts a '_' before every symbol's name, hence you should use -defsym _xsymbol=_ysymbol. Fabio Alemagna -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
