Bug 97711

Summary:	kernel-source-2.4.20-18.7: make modules fails
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <florin>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Need Real Name 2003-06-19 16:42:06 UTC

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Description of problem:
Modules cannot be compiled from kernel-source-2.4.20-18.7.
make modules leads to compilation errors.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-source-2.4.20-18.7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.7; make xconfig ; make dep ; make bzImage - OK
make modules: 
   ...
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.7/drivers/block'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.7/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.7/include/linux/modversions.h  -nostdinc -iwithprefix
include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=rd  -c -o rd.o rd.c
In file included from rd.c:46:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.7/include/linux/string.h:15: nondigits in number and
not hexadecimal
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.7/include/linux/string.h:15: parse error before `29805c13'
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.7/include/linux/string.h:15: warning: function
declaration isn't a prototype
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.7/include/linux/string.h:16: nondigits in number and
not hexadecimal
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.7/include/linux/string.h:16: nondigits in number and
not hexadecimal
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.7/include/linux/string.h:16: nondigits in number and
not hexadecimal
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.7/include/linux/string.h:16: nondigits in number and
not hexadecimal
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.7/include/linux/string.h:16: parse error before `9a1dfd65'
...
FAILS


Additional info:

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2003-06-19 16:43:40 UTC

you need to do make mrproper as first step.

Comment 2 Brian Brock 2003-06-24 16:32:30 UTC

Verfied, `make mrproper` has been required for several releases and our tests
have checked that behavior for each release.