This is beginning to annoy me, so hopefully someone can give
me a clue here, as I get the feeling that I'm missing something
very basic.

I have a working 2.6.10 kernel, installed using 'emerge
development-sources' in the usual fashion.

cd /usr/src
cp -rp /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 /usr/src/linux-uml-2.6.10-gentoo-r6
cd /usr/src/linux-uml-2.6.10-gentoo-r6
make mrproper
make mrproper ARCH=um
make menuconfig ARCH=um
make linux ARCH=um

The compile comes out with a mix of CC and LD lines, but also comes up
with raw gcc lines; this looks unclean to me, though it may be a
non-problem (I can't tell).

The final link barfs out a few lines of the form

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
BFD 2.15.92.0.2 20040927 assertion fail elf.c:3637
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
`__strtol_ul_rem_tab' referenced in section `.text' of
/usr/lib/libc.a(strtoul_l.o): defined in discarded section
`.gnu.linkonce.r.__strtol_ul_rem_tab' of /usr/lib/libc.a(strtoul_l.o)

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
`__strtol_ul_max_tab' referenced in section `.text' of
/usr/lib/libc.a(strtoul_l.o): defined in discarded section
`.gnu.linkonce.r.__strtol_ul_max_tab' of /usr/lib/libc.a(strtoul_l.o)

The resulting executable dies with a segfault; ddd suggests
it's dying in ptmalloc_init(), with a corrupted stack.

So a few questions:

[1] Am I fighting something very ugly in the linker?
(GNU ld version 2.15.92.0.2 20040927)
Or, even worse, in libc?
[2] The file /usr/src/linux-uml-2.6.10-gentoo-r6/arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S
comes up in a scan for modified files after 'make mrproper ARCH=um'.
Deleting it, however, borks the build even worse.
[3] It's not a 2G/2G problem, as far as I can tell, since System.map
of my *host* kernel (which is in another directory) has every
entry starting with 'c0...' (except for a very few at the end);
presumably with a 2G/2G most entries would instead start with '80...'.
[4] What am I missing? (Aside from some of my hair... :-) )

At this point I'm tempted to start with a clean 2.6.10 kernel (as
far as I can tell there's no patches that Gentoo knows about)
or maybe a 2.6.11 kernel, and hope for better luck.

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