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Subject: Re: fusefs-kmod does not work on 8-STABLE?
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On Apr 12, 2013, at 16:28, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> wrote:
...
> I've found the culprit: the problem is in this command of the build:
> 
>    ld -Bshareable  -d -warn-common -o hello.ko.debug hello.kld
> 
> I had put /usr/local/bin in my $PATH before /usr/bin for a reason I don't
> currently recall, and have binutils-2.23.1 installed.  As a result, ld(1)
> in the quoted line above was called from /usr/local/bin/ld, which brought
> in all the weird things I was observing: failure of fusefs-kmod, failure
> of simple "hello world" KLD, "link_elf: symbol <blah> undefined" messages
> when loading snd_hda(4) and nvidia(4) drivers.
> 
> How, does anyone have a clue why new ld(1) plays so badly with our system
> toolchain on 8.x (at least)?


Maybe because there is almost 10 years difference between those
implementations? :-)

In any case, to figure out what is different, just try linking the
kernel module with the system ld and the ports ld, and comparing
"readelf -a" output.

Or upload both module versions somewhere, so we can all have a look.