Re: netlink broken in 2.3.6

Tim (hairballmt@mcn.net)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:21:08 -0600


I'm an idiot. Doing the following did not correct the problem. I
wrote it as soon as I 'thought' compilation had passed this point and I
was very much mistaken. About 10 minutes later-whamo :( This is trying
to compiler with egcs-1.1.2. Any thoughts?

---Tim

Tim wrote:
>
> Hey, I was receiving this identical error after patching to 2.3.6. I
> followed the thread on 2.2.10 about requiring patch-2.5 and I now have a
> 2.3.6 src tree which compiles. Just reverted the 2.3.6 patch,
> downloaded, compiled and installed patch-2.5, reapplied 2.3.6 and
> voila. Maybe now I even know why some earlier patches failed. :) Good
> luck
>
> ---Tim
> -------------==============+++++++++++++++++++===========------------
> rsinha@glue.umd.edu wrote:
> >
> > sorry the last error was indeed due to that fs needing fsck..
> >
> > it however was not the error that prompted my email...
> > (just copied from the wrong Eterm...)
> >
> > this one prob looks a little more like a concern...
> > I fgreped the source dir (recursively) for rtnl_wlockct
> > it does not exist... outside of the file where it is exported...
> >
> > -RS
> >
> > make all_targets
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/net'
> > egcs -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/local/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
> > -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -DCPU=686
> > -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c netsyms.c
> > netsyms.c:380: `rtnl_wlockct' undeclared here (not in a function)
> > netsyms.c:380: initializer element for `__ksymtab_rtnl_wlockct.value' is
> > not constant
> > make[2]: *** [netsyms.o] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/net'
> > make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/net'
> > make: *** [_dir_net] Error 2
> > make used 89%% of the CPU, 7:35.85 user 26.490 system, over 8:59.43
> > 2:41:27 pm, Monday June 14 1999
> > [pts/4:11:2] ROOT@sparky//../linux #
> >
> > Rahul Sinha
> > rsinha@glue.umd.edu ICQ# 9738191 AOL IM: vox deus
> > Freshman Developer, Global Land Cover Facility
> > Computer Science / Government Treasurer, UM Linux Users' Group
> > University Of Maryland College Park Vice President, UM Debate Team
> >

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