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Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 00:33:10 -0700
From: "George W. Dinolt" <gdinolt@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: linux broken
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Michael:

I suspect that you may have

options COMPAT_LINUX

defined in your kernel config file.

Re your problem with Linux not working. I had the same problem. It seems
to be related to the changes in the generation of the file
linux_assym.h. A new method for generating these kind of symbols was
introducted into the kernel build system today. The changes were not
promulgated to the generation of linux_assym.h.

The following change to /usr/src/modules/linux/Makefile will allow one
to at least build a workable linux module.

*** Makefile~   Sat May 27 10:04:09 2000
--- Makefile    Sat Jun  3 00:11:05 2000
***************
*** 17,23 ****
  CLEANFILES= linux_assym.h linux_genassym.o

  linux_assym.h:        linux_genassym.o
!       genassym ${.ALLSRC} > ${.TARGET}

  linux_locore.o:       linux_locore.s linux_assym.h
        ${CC} -c -x assembler-with-cpp -DLOCORE ${CFLAGS} \
--- 17,23 ----
  CLEANFILES= linux_assym.h linux_genassym.o

  linux_assym.h:        linux_genassym.o
!       sh /usr/src/sys/kern/genassym.sh ${.ALLSRC} > ${.TARGET}

  linux_locore.o:       linux_locore.s linux_assym.h
        ${CC} -c -x assembler-with-cpp -DLOCORE ${CFLAGS} \

If you don't keep your srcs in /usr/src, you will have to modify the
fixes appropriately

I am sure that there is a much cleaner way of fixing this, but I will
leave it to the gurus to work that out. I think a similar fix to the
kernel Makefile would allow one to build a working kernel with
COMPAT_LINUX built in.

There may be other modules or pieces of the kernel which may be affected
by the new symbol generation facility. I have not been bitten by the
problem  yet nor have I looked for them, so I can't speak first hand of
the issues.

Hope this helps.

Regards, George Dinolt





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