Re: [Gumstix-users] can't resolve symbol '__uClibc_start_main'

[<roc...@gm...>]

Thanks Dave!  Your suggestion to remove build_arm_nofpu and
toolchain_arm_nofpu before kicking off the new build did the trick.

Todd


On 10/4/06, dhy...@al... <dhy...@al...> wrote:
>
> Hi Todd,
>
> > I just upgraded from 2.6.11 to 2.6.18 to get hotplug/udev
> improvements.  I
> > updated buildroot using 'svn update', rebuilt buildroot, and then
> reflashed
> > a GS with the 2.6.18 rootfs.
> >
> > Unfortunately at least a couple of binaries that I require no longer run
> on
> > 2.6.18gum. Instead I receive the runtime error:  "can't resolve symbol
> > '__uClibc_start_main'" when they are invoked.  I know of sz and sdpd (a
> BT
> > daemon) so far, but I suspect that many other binaries are also
> affected.
> > That will be nasty.
> >
> > What is the recommended approach for dealing with this lib compatibility
> > issue?
>
> You need to also do:
>
> rm -rf buildroot_arm_nofpu toolchain_arm_nofpu
>
> What's happening is that uClibc was upgraded, and unfortunately, the new
> uClibc is not binary compatible with the old one. If you don't remove the
> directory trees mentioned above, then make will try to mix objects from
> the
> old toolchain and the new toolchain. By removing those two directory
> trees,
> you'll be removing all of the old stuff, and doing the make will
> regenerate
> all of the objects using the same toolchain, and it everything should work
> fine.
>
> --
> Dave Hylands
> Vancouver, BC, Canada
> http://www.DaveHylands.com/
>
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