Bug 58660

Summary:	kernel modules compilation fails.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Chip Nayak <chipnayak>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.2
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Description Chip Nayak 2002-01-22 14:32:08 UTC

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Description of problem:
on RH 7.2 (2.4.9-13), rebuilding kernel modules fail for abi/svr4 module.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install kernel sources and do "make mrproper"
2."make menuconfig" 
3."make deps"
4." make modules"	

Actual Results:  make -C svr4 modules
make[2]: Entering directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-13/abi/svr4'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.9-13/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Wno-unused -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS
-include /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-13/include/linux/modversions.h   -c -o
sysinfo.o sysinfo.c
sysinfo.c:11:27: linux/compile.h: No such file or directory
sysinfo.c: In function svr4_sysinfo':
sysinfo.c:86: UTS_VERSION' undeclared (first use in this function)
sysinfo.c:86: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
sysinfo.c:86: for each function it appears in.)
make[2]: *** [sysinfo.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-13/abi/svr4'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_svr4] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-13/abi'
make: *** [_mod_abi] Error 2


Expected Results:  Successfull build

Additional info:

Output from "make modules"

make -C svr4 modules
make[2]: Entering directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-13/abi/svr4'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.9-13/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Wno-unused -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS
-include /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-13/include/linux/modversions.h   -c -o
sysinfo.o sysinfo.c
sysinfo.c:11:27: linux/compile.h: No such file or directory
sysinfo.c: In function svr4_sysinfo':
sysinfo.c:86: UTS_VERSION' undeclared (first use in this function)
sysinfo.c:86: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
sysinfo.c:86: for each function it appears in.)
make[2]: *** [sysinfo.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-13/abi/svr4'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_svr4] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-13/abi'
make: *** [_mod_abi] Error 2

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2002-01-22 14:36:05 UTC

Reasigning to kernel package (kernelcfg was a tool to edit modules.conf ;-).

Read ya, Phil

Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2002-01-22 14:47:05 UTC

yep this won't work; you need to at least do "make bzImage" first.
It doesn't have to finish, but the first file needs to have been processed...