Re: problems compiling enbd-2.4.32pre and fr1-2.16 under kernel 2.6.8.1

In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
> > yours is (throughout the file) and all should be OK (crosses fingers).
> > Let me know what happens! I'd like very much to know.
> 
> i'm sorry, but i'm unable to do that 'cause i'm not a programmer. i just have
> a tiny little knowledge of c. to me, touching the Makefile could be a nightmare.

Well, as I said, swapping the references would do it, but I've had a go
at updating the Makefile for 2.6.8.1 (I use 2.6.3 and it works fine
there), and it mostly compiles in situ now - mostly, apart from the
final ld ... -o enbd.ko, which the Makefile emits but doesn't seem to
do. Mysterious. But you can do it by hand, since the lines are obvious
on the screen :-). 

Really the problem is that the Makefile comes from 2.6.3, and they
changed the 2.6.8.1 one in a subtle way that I haven't completely
sussed yet. I might just swap in the new one, and not try to support
the older one.

It (the revised makefile) should be in the current 2.4.32 archive - I
flushed from my portable to the archive a little while ago.

  betty:/usr/oboe/ptb/lang/c/nbd/nbd-2.4.32% sudo make ARCH=um LINUXDIR=/usr/local/src/linux-2.6.8.1-uml 
  make -C /tmp VPATH=/home/oboe/ptb/lang/c/nbd/nbd-2.4.32/nbd \
  ...
  gcc -Wp,-MD,/tmp/linux-2.6.x/drivers/block/enbd/.enbd.mod.o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude  -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude  -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -U__i386__ -Ui386  -D__arch_um__ -DSUBARCH=\"i386\" -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -Iarch/um/include -Derrno=kernel_errno -Dsigprocmask=kernel_sigprocmask -I/usr/local/src/linux-2.6.8.1-uml/arch/um/kernel/tt/include -I/usr/local/src/linux-2.6.8.1-uml/arch/um/kernel/skas/include  -Os -fomit-frame-pointer  -DUM_FASTCALL -D__arch_um__ -DSUBARCH=\"i386\" -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I/usr/local/src/linux-2.6.8.1-uml/arch/um/include -Derrno=kernel_errno -I/usr/local/src/linux-2.6.8.1-uml/arch/um/kernel/tt/include -I/usr/local/src/linux-2.6.8.1-uml/arch/um/kernel/skas/include
  -DKBUILD_BASENAME=enbd -DKBUILD_MODNAME=enbd -DMODULE -c -o /tmp/linux-2.6.x/drivers/block/enbd/enbd.mod.o /tmp/linux-2.6.x/drivers/block/enbd/enbd.mod.c
  ld  -r -o /tmp/linux-2.6.x/drivers/block/enbd/enbd.ko /tmp/linux-2.6.x/drivers/block/enbd/enbd.o /tmp/linux-2.6.x/drivers/block/enbd/enbd.mod.o
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  Do this by hand

  gcc -Wp,-MD,/tmp/linux-2.6.x/drivers/block/enbd/.enbd_ioctl.mod.o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude  -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -U__i386__ -Ui386  -D__arch_um__ -DSUBARCH=\"i386\" -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -Iarch/um/include -Derrno=kernel_errno -Dsigprocmask=kernel_sigprocmask -I/usr/local/src/linux-2.6.8.1-uml/arch/um/kernel/tt/include -I/usr/local/src/linux-2.6.8.1-uml/arch/um/kernel/skas/include -Os -fomit-frame-pointer  -DUM_FASTCALL -D__arch_um__ -DSUBARCH=\"i386\" -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I/usr/local/src/linux-2.6.8.1-uml/arch/um/include -Derrno=kernel_errno -I/usr/local/src/linux-2.6.8.1-uml/arch/um/kernel/tt/include -I/usr/local/src/linux-2.6.8.1-uml/arch/um/kernel/skas/include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=enbd_ioctl -DKBUILD_MODNAME=enbd_ioctl -DMODULE -c -o /tmp/linux-2.6.x/drivers/block/enbd/enbd_ioct
 l.mod.o /tmp/linux-2.6.x/drivers/block/enbd/enbd_ioctl.mod.c
  ld  -r -o /tmp/linux-2.6.x/drivers/block/enbd/enbd_ioctl.ko /tmp/linux-2.6.x/drivers/block/enbd/enbd_ioctl.o /tmp/linux-2.6.x/drivers/block/enbd/enbd_ioctl.mod.o
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  And this

  make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/linux-2.6.8.1-uml'
  cp: cannot stat `/tmp/linux-2.6.x/drivers/block/enbd/*.ko':
  No such file or directory
  *************************************
  * please apply kernel patch instead *
  *************************************

I don't know why those ld's don't get done. They work fine when I cut and
paste. Sigh. I'll see what the 2.6.8.1 Makefile does.


Peter