Bug 116757
| Summary: | /sbin/mkkerneldoth does not initialize SUMMIT to '0' | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | Reporter: | Don Smith <sdonald> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2.1 | CC: | rvokal |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-02-24 22:22:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description of problem: The /sbin/mkkerneldoth script that rc.sysinit runs to create the /boot/kernel.h has a small omission in that it doesn't initialize the SUMMIT variable to '0' like it does with the variables for all the other kernel types. This means that /boot/kernel.h will end up with an empty definition on a non-Summit box: #ifndef __BOOT_KERNEL_SUMMIT #define __BOOT_KERNEL_SUMMIT #endif The file /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/linux/rhconfig.h #includes /boot/kernel.h and uses the definitions in its own #define statements. When it tries to use the __BOOT_KERNEL_SUMMIT definition on line 31: #if defined(__BOOT_KERNEL_SUMMIT) && (__BOOT_KERNEL_SUMMIT == 1) it ends up using an empty value in the comparison, and will generate a syntax error (no left operand) when compiling source that includes this file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Include the rhconfig.h file mentioned in some source code 2. Attempt to preprocess/compile the source 3. Actual results: An error message like "/lib/modules/2.4.9-e.34smp/build/include/linux/rhconfig.h:31:60: operator '(' has no left operand" Expected results: no error message Additional info: