[ale] Re: modules fail symbol lookup

[Benjamin Scherrey]

Yes - anyone moving to the new kernels needs to move to glib rather than
libc5. This is going to be tougher on the slackware and debian folks than
it is the redhat users (AFAIK) but its well worth the effort once done.
People moving from libc5 will have to rebuild a lot of their code.
Unfortunately, this often causes people to believe that glib is less
stable than libc5 was but that really isn't the case at all. Better start
getting ready for 2.2 now....

    regards,

        Ben Scherrey

"Eric Z. Ayers" wrote:

> Someone was asking about problems after installing the
> modutils-2.1.121 with kernel symbols not being recognized.
>
> I just upgraded a slackware (old) box to use the 2.1.131.  I upgraded
> all the stuff mentioned in the 'Changes' file, but kept getting the
> same errors when I tried to load in modules I had built.
>
> After a lot of pain upgrading to the latest binutils + the latest
> libc5 + the latest everything else mentioned in the Changes file
> (except I didn't upgrade gcc past 2.7.2)