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Re: building 2.4.2 (with XFS) fails

To: james rich <james.rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: building 2.4.2 (with XFS) fails
From: "Nathan Scott" <nathans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 10:35:21 -0400
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: james rich <james.rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Re: building 2.4.2 (with XFS) fails" (Feb 24, 3:15pm)
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hi,

On Feb 24,  3:15pm, james rich wrote:
> Subject: Re: building 2.4.2 (with XFS) fails
> I built a stock kernel 2.4.2 with no problems so the failure below is
> definately something related to the XFS patches.  Unfortunately I don't
> know the cause of the build failure.  Is everyone here building on RH7?

no - I'm not, but according to the survey it seems many folk
trying out XFS (and answering the survey) are using one or
other version of RedHat though.

> I'm using Slackware 7.1.  It seems that these patches would need to build

according to the survey, there have been a few other people
using Slackware (not sure which versions).

> on most distros before reaching release level.  Let me know if I can do
> something (happy to test stuff).
> 
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, james rich wrote:
> > When building 2.4.2 with XFS patches the build fails with errors that
> > don't seem related to XFS (that's why the crosspost):
> > 
> > gcc -V egcs-2.91.66 -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include  -Wall
> > -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe
> > -march=i686    -c -o dec_and_lock.o dec_and_lock.c
> > rm -f lib.a
> > ar  rcs lib.a checksum.o old-checksum.o delay.o usercopy.o getuser.o
> > putuser.o iodebug.o memcpy.o dec_and_lock.o
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4-xfs/linux/arch/i386/lib'
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4-xfs/linux/arch/i386/lib'
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4-xfs/linux'
> > ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext
> > arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o
> > init/version.o --start-group arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o
> > kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o drivers/block/block.o
> > drivers/char/char.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o
> > drivers/media/media.o  drivers/parport/driver.o drivers/char/drm/drm.o
> > drivers/ide/idedriver.o drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o drivers/cdrom/driver.o
> > drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/video/video.o
> > drivers/i2c/i2c.o drivers/md/mddev.o net/network.o
> > /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a
> > /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a --end-group  -o vmlinux
> > drivers/char/char.o: In function `vt_ioctl':
> > drivers/char/char.o(.text+0x96fb): undefined reference to `key_maps'

from my build area, it seems I'm picking up the `key_maps'
symbol from drivers/char/defkeymap.o...
$ nm drivers/char/defkeymap.o | grep key_maps
00000700 D key_maps

drivers/char/defkeymap.c should exist and should have been
generated by the last line of drivers/char/Makefile.
do you have a drivers/char/defkeymap.c file?  if so, do you
have the drivers/char/defkeymap.o file?  if so, does it
contain the `key_maps' symbol?  if so, my theory is in
trouble.  ;-)

you should also see a line something like this in your make
output (would be well before the error I think) ...
ld -m elf_i386  -r -o char.o tty_io.o n_tty.o tty_ioctl.o \
                    ^^^^^^^^
mem.o raw.o pty.o misc.o random.o vt.o vc_screen.o consolemap.o\
consolemap_deftbl.o console.o selection.o serial.o keyboard.o \
defkeymap.o pc_keyb.o sysrq.o
^^^^^^^^^^^

...that char.o is drivers/char/char.o which seems to not have
`key_maps' in your case.

> > 
> > Any ideas what is wrong?
> > 

I have a vague recollection of this .c file being checked
into the tree (accidentally) from day1, but it was removed
quite some time ago ... perhaps you're using a workarea
updated from a while ago & this is somehow permuting your
build?  (clutching at straws here).

If you have a drivers/char/defkeymap.c file, you could try
deleting it & allow a fresh build to regenerate it.  since
your non-XFS 2.4.2 build works, this should too (there are
no XFS changes around this code that I'm aware of).

hope this helps.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan

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