FWIW, I got precisely this same error yesterday afternoon, trying to compile for a MS7308E. This was on a fresh and unpatched install of RH 7.3, with 2.4.19 freshly unpacked and linuxbios pulled out of CVS in mid-afternoon US/Eastern. I got to that point just as I was leaving for the day, I was hoping that maybe today would be better. :-)
--Bob
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:23:36AM -0800, James Alton wrote:
-o vmlinux
drivers/video/video.o(.data+0x1bd4): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1