From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I believe there is a typo on line 299 of the /usr/src/linux-2.4.18- 0.22/include/linux/module.h file. The second quotation should come just before the semicolon and not just after the equal sign as it is in the beta test version. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Edit the file and look. 2. 3. Additional info:
Humm it actually looks correct it basically creates a string which is "kernel_version=2.4.18-0.22"; C allows 2 string constants to be consecutive and then concatinates them underwater...
On my system the line reads: "kernel_version=" UTS_RELEASE; This caused the compiler to error out with something like 'Parse error before UTS_RELEASE' When I changed the line to read like this: "kernel_version=UTS_RELEASE"; the compiler was happy.
The compiler might be happy but it's wrong. UTS_RELEASE is a string with the kernel version number, and that needs to be concatinated there, eg to create "kernel_version=2.4.18-0.22". Now UTS_RELEASE is from version.h which is autogenerated at build time; could you say how you are building the kernel since I get the idea something is going funny there that causes a weird version.h to be present
I'm not actually building the kernel, I'm building the linux-wlan-ng package which requires the kernel and pcmcia-cs sources (which it borrows files from).
linux-wlan-ng is broken then. It should not ever depend on the kernel sources. It can use the glibc headers (from glibc-devel and glibc-kernheaders).....