Bruce McArdle wrote: > I've just installed the Debian gcc and source so I can rebuild the > kernel. I get a error during the make dep process when it goes into the > drivers/net directory. The error is: > > bsd_comp.c : 56: #error This file must be compiled as a module.
I just struggled (and succeeded) with this error two days ago. The makefile for drivers/net has bsd_comp.o for ppp. I'm not sure why. My 1.2.13 src in my Slackware 2.3 didn't. It may be because I said "yes" to "elf" support even though I don't need it yet. I need to test saying "no" to elf to see if this makes a difference (I didn't think that "make config" changes the makefiles any). Anyway, looking at the source for bsd_comp.c you can clearly see that it fails if it's not compiled as a module. To get around this, I had to say "no" to ppp in make config so it _would_ be a module. I haven't tried actually running pppd yet though. -- ...RickM...
