[00:56] <oursland> I'm running into a problem building perarch for v4.16.5. Linking fails on 'acpidbg' with a number of undefined references to C stdlib components.  There's also a warning about failing to find symbol _start.  Is anyone familiar with this error and it's resolution?
[07:18] <apw> oursland, not sure i know what perarch is
[07:18] <apw> do you have a pastebin of the errors perhaps
[10:25] <cascardo> dsmythies: you may install linux-base from xenial-proposed
[11:57] <oursland> apw, https://gitlab.com/snippets/1713199
[11:57] <oursland> perarch refers to this command "fakeroot debian/rules binary-perarch"
[12:04] <apw> oursland, that i have not seen
[12:11] <cking> we enabled ACPI debugging in Bionic, I believe the ACPI debug tools were enabled too
[12:11] <sforshee> oursland: see if this helps - https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/unstable/commit/?id=8506e11a79d14989409542b885beba7119190562
[12:14] <cking> sforshee, nice one
[12:14] <sforshee> cking: yeah I need to send it upstream, kind of forgot
[12:15] <cking> sforshee, I think I saw some fix being talked about using ld/gcc somewhere recently, can't recall where now
[13:18] <oursland> sforshee: Thanks!  That resolved the issue.  
[15:08] <dsmythies> cascardo: thanks. that worked fine. it still complains about not having libssl1.1 during install, and linux-headers-4.17.0-041700rc3-lowlatency ends up unconfigured, but the kernel seems to boot. As for removal/purge, it seems to work O.K.
[19:04] <oursland> Next issue: "linux-update-symlinks: not found"  This is on 16.04, but it appears that this command is not yet included until later distributions.  Is installing kernel v4.16 not supported on 16.04 at all?
[19:12] <dsmythies> oursland: update and it should now work. I believe they just promoted the package "linux-base", which has the missing files, from xenial-proposed to normal updates a few hours ago.
[19:14] <dsmythies> oursland: see also bug 1766728
[19:17] <oursland> Thanks, ubot5.   I'll give that a shot.
[19:21] <oursland> Err, thanks dsmythies!