Re: Linux 2.0.4 (and a small patch, d*mn)

Andy Smith (smitha@alice.mach3ww.com)
Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:56:05 -0500 (CDT)

> On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > If you have problems with the sound driver, you'll get a rather obvious parse
> > error compiling it - just add a ";" at the end of the appropriate line. Sorry
> > about that, I was hoping that these silly problems would be gone by now.
>
> I'm having lots of problems with the sound driver(s). I don't get the
> above either... I'm trying to compile sound into the kernel (no
> module). I patched up from 2.0.0 to 2.0.4 (didn't try .1, .2., or .3).
> This is what I get at the end of kernel build:

When trying to compile a patched 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 I get this error. I fixed
that ";" problem. I don't know why it gave me this error. I could just be
stupid, but I did see mention of more problems with the sound drivers. - Andy

ps. Its a 486, Soundblaster 16, latest gcc, latest lib's, kernel 2.0 ready...

ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x100000 -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o
init/main.o init/version.o \
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o
mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o net/network.a \
fs/filesystems.a \
drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/net/net.a
drivers/scsi/scsi.a drivers/sound/sound.a drivers/pci/pci.a
arch/i386/math-emu/math.a \
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a -o vmlinux
sb_common.o(.text+0x1752): undefined reference to `sb16_set_mpu_port'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1