Juan Casero wrote:
> 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.
There should be no reason a 'cvs update' should be run immediately after a 'cvs
checkout'
If anybody has run that shows cvs update in this case producing output
let me know.
>
>
> 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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