On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
>> From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
>> Yes, this is a known bug with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS. If you have
>> CONFIG_MODVERSIONS turned on, and you build a kernel, and then
>> you change certain options such as CONFIG_SMP, you will get
>> stale *.ver files and your build will blow up.
>> Workaround:
>> copy your /usr/src/linux/.config file somewhere
>> make mrproper (or remove your whole tree and re-install it)
>> put your /usr/src/linux/.config file back
>> make oldconfig
>> make dep
>> make clean
>> make bzImage
>> make modules
>> make modules_install (if you want)
> Another workaround is to do a make clean, followed by an rm
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/*. This is where the stale
> *.ver files live, and they should get cleaned out by a make
> clean.
> A patch to do this to the Linux Makefiles is left as an exercise
> for the reader.
You are presumably referring to something like the enclosed patch?
===8<=== CUT ===>8===
--- linux-2.2.4/Makefile~ Sat Mar 13 00:22:27 1999
+++ linux-2.2.4/Makefile Fri Mar 26 21:12:47 1999
@@ -344,11 +344,11 @@
clean: archclean
rm -f kernel/ksyms.lst include/linux/compile.h
rm -f core `find . -name '*.[oas]' ! -regex '.*lxdialog/.*' -print`
rm -f core `find . -type f -name 'core' -print`
rm -f core `find . -name '.*.flags' -print`
- rm -f vmlinux System.map
+ rm -f vmlinux System.map include/linux/modules/*
rm -f .tmp*
rm -f drivers/char/consolemap_deftbl.c drivers/video/promcon_tbl.c
rm -f drivers/char/conmakehash
rm -f drivers/sound/bin2hex drivers/sound/hex2hex
if [ -d modules ]; then \
===8<=== CUT ===>8===
Best wishes from Riley.
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| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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* ftp://ftp.MemAlpha.cx/pub/rhw/Linux
* http://www.MemAlpha.cx/kernel.versions.html
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