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I have lots of warning: missing initializer errors
I installed binutils 2.17 but i get the same errors

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  LD      drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv.o
  LD      drivers/media/video/bt8xx/built-in.o
  LD      drivers/media/video/built-in.o
  LD      drivers/media/built-in.o
  LD      drivers/built-in.o
  LD      net/unix/unix.o
  LD      net/unix/built-in.o
  LD      net/ipv4/netfilter/built-in.o
  LD      net/ipv4/built-in.o
  LD      net/xfrm/built-in.o
  LD      net/built-in.o
  GEN     .version
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  UPD     include/linux/compile.h
  CC      init/version.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
  LD      vmlinux
ld: vmlinux: section `.init.text' can't be allocated in segment 0
ld: final link failed: Bad value
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

I am using slackware 11.0
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I'm experimenting the same error... let's see what could be wrong.

How did you install binutils ? I think it's a problem there. If you overwrite the files in /usr/local/binutils-2.17 on the ones in / then the kernel will compile but crashes at boot.

I simply upgraded the package with the 2.17 in slackware-current.

Try upgrading it manualy from sources.That does the job but set the prefix "/"

Yep, it works, but I cannot figure out why!

what version of binutils did you install from source ?
2.17 from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/ or
2.17.50.0.14 from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/ ?

[quote="stanojr"]what version of binutils did you install from source ?
2.17 from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/ or
2.17.50.0.14 from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/ ?[/quote]

The last one, the release on gnu.org seems quite outdated. The strangest thing is that this version matches the last on slackware-current repository, but seems like to have different behaviours.

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