>Number:         9121
>Category:       port-alpha
>Synopsis:       alpha kernel breakage recently
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    port-alpha-maintainer (NetBSD/alpha Portmaster)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan  4 17:33:00 2000
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Matthew Jacob
>Organization:
NASA Ames Researche Center
	
>Release:        JAN-04-2000
>Environment:
System: NetBSD poseur 1.4P NetBSD 1.4P (ALPHA) #12: Tue Jan 4 17:21:08 PST 2000 mjacob@poseur:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/ALPHA alpha

This is an AlphaStation 500.

>Description:

Some time between December 8 and today, the kernel changed such that
attempts to rebuild a kernel fail at the link phase:

sh ../../../../conf/newvers.sh
cc  -O2 -Werror -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes  -Wpointer-arith 
-Wno-main -mno-fp-regs -I. -I../../../../arch -I../../../.. -nostdinc -I../../..
/../../gnu/sys -DDIAGNOSTIC -DDEBUG -DLKM -DMAXUSERS=32 -D_KERNEL -Dalpha  -c ve
rs.c
ld -N -Ttext fffffc0000300000 -e __transfer -G 4 -S -o netbsd ${SYSTEM_OBJ} vers
.o
Abort trap
*** Error code 134

Stop.


If I roll back to a December8 kernel, things link okay.

>How-To-Repeat:
See above.
>Fix:
Unknown.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: