RE: Redhat compilation woes

Hi,

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Christopher Piggott HOME wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I made it compile ... the problem was all related to modver.  I tried early
> on compiling my kernel without modver and it didn't help ... but the reason
> for that is that it had already been compiled with modversions turned on
> once before, and 'make clean' isn't sufficient to remove everything from
> that build.  Something in the at76c503 makefile was still confused, thinking
> modversions were turned on.  I don't think it's the at76c503 make's fault,
> but the only way I knew how to fix it was to comment this out:
>
> # ifeq ($(MODVER),1)
> # MFLAG = -DMODVERSIONS -include $(KERNEL_HEADERS)/linux/modversions.h
> # endif
>
> and unset MODVER.  Then, it compiled.

as MODVER comes from
MODVER = $(shell if cat $(KERNEL_HEADERS)/linux/autoconf.h 2>/dev/null | \
grep -q '^[[:space:]]*\#define[[:space:]]*CONFIG_MODVERSIONS[[:space:]]*1'; \
then echo 1; else echo 0; fi)

I guess you still had an old include/linux/autoconf.h file with a
"#define CONFIG_MODVERSIONS 1" in it. AFAIK this is overwritten by a "make
oldconfig" (or any "make *config" possible).

/Jörg