Same Kernel 2.0.30 Problem

Carlos Miguel de Sousa Lopes (c9702056@cca.fc.up.pt)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 05:19:33 +0000

I recently posted a message related to a making problem on the linux
kernel 2.0.27
I upgrade to a new version(well not such a big improvement on the
upgrade, but...who cares :)) to a RH5.0
kernel 2.0.30 and i tried to remake the kernel and i get the same error
that i have received on the 2.0.27.
Isn't weird i get the same problem on two different kernel versions.
I make paste of the first message to explain the problem...

Regards...

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Greetings,

I have a problem making a linux kernel on a i586 machine.

When i type: make zImage, the makefile fails to link the object files
related to the image file compression(misc.o,piggy.c... located at
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed) and then abort the whole
making process.

I get 3 messages about undefined references in misc.o in function
fill_inbuff.
There are only 2 variables on that function that are undefined, but ld
reply with 3 messages since one of that variables appears two times
within the fucntion.

I take a look on the source code of misc.c and try to see where the
variables are declared, and they are declared as follow:

extern char input_data;
extern int input_len;

These are the variables that the linker complains about.

I am using a RH5.0 , kernel 2.0.30 and a i586 platform.

Any ideas about this problem?

Thanks,

Carlos Sousa - c9702056@cca.fc.up.pt

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