It's hard to understand why you are having this problem. I have not seen
anything
like it
although I will say that there were a couple of occassions a few days ago when a
compile
of the previous kernel source from the SGI CVS server did fail on my box. I
don't
recall
if the error was like yours though. On a much happier note I will say that I
was
able to
compile the code for the 2.4.2 kernel source that I downloaded from their CVS
server.
One thing you might be failing to do is update your cvs tree. Make sure you
issue
the following
commands to get the source tree
$ cvs -z3 checkout linux-2.4-xfs
$ cvs -z3 update -d
It is important that you not forget the second of the two commands above. I
myself
am
relatively new to using CVS so I can't explain why but I am almost certain that
the
update
is absolutely important for getting the latest source code.
Good Luck....
Juan Casero
casero@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
james rich wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Juan Casero wrote:
>
> > The messages below seem to indicate there are some references in char.o to
> > functions that have not been defined. These kinds of errors usually occur
> > at
> > the link stage of a compilation. Instead of patching a stock kernel use
> > the
> >
> > instructions available at oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs to login to their CVS
> > server
> > and download the source code that way. After that you can make a sym link
> > /usr/src/linux-2.4-xfs/linux <-- /usr/src/linux and then recompile the code.
> > I am pretty sure you'll have no problems getting it to build.
>
> This occurred after pulling the CVS tree last night and tried it again
> this morning. I'l' try deleting my entire tree and do the CVS pull again
> (takes a *long* time over my modem :( ).
>
> James Rich
> james.rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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