Bug 77523
| Summary: | 2.4.18-17.7.x fails to compile when CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Peter Collinson <pc> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | ||
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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: | 2002-11-08 15:39:31 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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looks like you forgot make mrproper as first step.. Yep - thanks for not saying RTFM! |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (Win98; U) Description of problem: The kernel build fails when making modules. It seems that the file: include/linux/modules/ksyms.ver is saying: #define loops_per_jiffy _set_ver(loops_per_jiffy) and loops_per_jiffy is a member of a structure struct cpuinfo_x86 that is broken by this definition. The structure entry becomes unsigned long loops_per_jiffy_R_ver_str(ba497f13); which isn't legal. Since the default for the config program is to enable this flag, it causes great confusion with Linux novices like me - who really expect that kernels from Redhat should compile.. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start with a fresh kernel and no .config file 2. Run make config and select nothing - simply save the file 3 make clean 4 make dep 5 make bzImage 6 make modules Actual Results: Compilation dies - in my case in module - cdrom.c. Sorry I have lost the actual results since I found the workaround for the problem. Expected Results: The kernel should compile. Additional info: