I seem to be unable to compile the modules with the stock kernel of
Mandrake 8.1. Neither with my preferences nor with the default ones. I
even updated the kernel sources today, but the compilation still stops
with the following error messages>
make -C ftape modules
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/drivers/char/ftape'
make -C compressor modules
make[4]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/drivers/char/ftape/compressor'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common
-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586
-fno-merge-constants -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include
/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/linux/modversions.h -c -o
zftape-compress.o zftape-compress.c
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from zftape-compress.c:35:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/linux/sched.h:6: nondigits in number and
not hexadecimal
/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/linux/sched.h:6: nondigits in number and
not hexadecimal
/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/linux/sched.h:6: parse error before
`7b16c344'
/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/linux/sched.h:6: warning: function
declaration isn't a prototype
make[4]: *** [zftape-compress.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/drivers/char/ftape/compressor'
make[3]: *** [_modsubdir_compressor] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/drivers/char/ftape'
make[2]: *** [_modsubdir_ftape] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/drivers/char'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_char] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
The non-digits in the number are a result of some preprocessing step.
With cpp I have found the offending line:
# 1 "/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/asm/param.h" 1
# 5 "/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/linux/sched.h" 2
extern unsigned long event_R_ver_str(7b16c344);
this seems to me some malformed substitusion as the line in shed.h
reads:
extern unsigned long event;
As I usually comiled my own kernel on Debian before this seems to be
some error in the kernel sources. So my questions are:
- how can I overcome this problem?
- can I get a newer kernel from kernels.org and compile it without
loosing any of the nice HW detection, ext3 etc features
of Mandrake?
Andras
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