[ale] Can't compile RedHat's kernel.

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 06 January 2003 01:55 pm, attriel wrote:
> > On Monday 06 January 2003 01:33 pm, Chris Ricker wrote:
> >> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> >> > Anyone compiled a RedHat kernel, lately.  I remember there was a
> >>
> >> time when you needed a special compiler, but I thought those days
> >> were over.
> >>
> >> > I'm trying to add the usbdnet to my kernel, but when that didn't
> >>
> >> work I've gone back to the RedHat sources and did make dep && make
> >> bzImage && make modules.  In the middle of make bzImage I get crap
> >> like:
> >>
> >> you're missing a make clean. do that first, before the make dep, etc
> >
> > Well, that just introduced new errors.  I should say that before my
> > error  was actually in make modules, not make bzImage as I stated.
> >
> > When I did a make clean I got these errors with the redhat i686 config
> > file.  I still wondering if I'm missing some devel package that would
> > make  all this go away:
>
> Just as a thought, make sure that /usr/include/linux and
> /usr/include/asm are symlinks to /usr/src/linux/include/linux and
> /usr/src/linux/include/asm
>
> (or /usr/src/your-linux-directory/include/linux|asm)
>
> It's possible it decided to install set A of headers and you're
> compiling kernel B and they don't line up :o

That seems reasonable, so I tried it and now i get this.  I'm getting more 
confused all the time....

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14'
kallsyms pass 1
ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext 
arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o 
init/version.o init/do_mounts.o --start-group arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o 
arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o  
drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o 
drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/char/drm/drm.o 
drivers/net/fc/fc.o drivers/net/appletalk/appletalk.o 
drivers/net/tokenring/tr.o drivers/net/wan/wan.o drivers/atm/atm.o 
drivers/ide/idedriver.o drivers/cdrom/driver.o drivers/pci/driver.o 
drivers/net/pcmcia/pcmcia_net.o drivers/net/wireless/wireless_net.o 
drivers/pnp/pnp.o drivers/video/video.o drivers/md/mddev.o 
drivers/isdn/vmlinux-obj.o net/network.o crypto/crypto.o abi/abi.o 
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/arch/i386/lib/lib.a 
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/lib/lib.a 
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/arch/i386/lib/lib.a --end-group -o .tmp_vmlinux1
init/main.o: In function `do_basic_setup':
init/main.o(.text.init+0x841): undefined reference to 
`speakup_register_devsynth'
fs/fs.o: In function `proc_root_init':
fs/fs.o(.text.init+0xc8b): undefined reference to `proc_speakup_init'
drivers/char/char.o: In function `vc_allocate':
drivers/char/char.o(.text+0xf6cf): undefined reference to 
`speakup_allocate'
drivers/char/char.o: In function `lf':
drivers/char/char.o(.text+0xfdde): undefined reference to 
`speakup_con_write'
drivers/char/char.o: In function `do_con_write':
drivers/char/char.o(.text+0x12161): undefined reference to 
`speakup_con_update'
drivers/char/char.o(.text+0x1254e): undefined reference to 
`speakup_con_write'
drivers/char/char.o: In function `console_callback':
drivers/char/char.o(.text+0x127f3): undefined reference to 
`speakup_con_update'
drivers/char/char.o: In function `vt_console_print':
drivers/char/char.o(.text+0x128b0): undefined reference to 
`speakup_con_write'
drivers/char/char.o(.text+0x12a2a): undefined reference to 
`speakup_con_update'
drivers/char/char.o(.text+0x12aeb): undefined reference to `speakup_bs'
drivers/char/char.o: In function `do_con_trol':

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