[ccache] Re: [REGRESSION] Recent change to kernel spikes out ccache/distcc

[Jan Beulich]

>>> Theodore Tso <tytso at mit.edu> 07.01.09 15:28 >>>
>On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:39:38PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> Theodore Tso <tytso at mit.edu> 07.01.09 14:12 >>>
>> >objcopy: not stripping symbol `__ksymtab_strings' because it is named in a relocation
>> 
>> Another thing I've never seen in any of my builds - these strings always
>> get relocations against the corresponding section symbol.
>
>Just to be clear; it doesn't always fail; it seems to be random (or at
>least, I haven't had time to try to suss out why sometimes
>__ksymtab_strings is being used in a relocation):

It's apparently happening only for modules which export symbols.

Jan