I'm a little new, so let me know if this is out of place. After grabbing the latest source via CVS, I ran into compilation problems. A little (read "a lot of") searching, and I found I was not alone with this problem. This fix, worked for me. But I'm not sure why no one else had run into it. My Makefile knowledge is extremely limited to say the least. But are there possible side-effects of this particular fix? And how does a fix like this, find it's way back into the source tree? Any pointers, or other information welcome. ==ORIGINAL MESSAGE START== * Newsgroups: linux.debian.ports.mips * From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com <mailto:pere@hungry.com>> * Subject: Compile problem with latest mips kernel CVS * Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 09:40:07 +0100 * Organization: linux.*_mail_to_news_unidirectional_gateway * Approved: robomod@news.nic.it (1.20) Hello I do not have post access to linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, so I try to send it here instead. I tested to compile the kernel from the mips kernel CVS last night, and it stopped with the following error. The error line is "EXPORT_SYMBOL(<symbol>');". The object rrm.o must be added to export-objs. Patch below. make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-cvs/drivers/sgi/char' gcc -I /usr/src/linux-cvs/include/asm/gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-cvs/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -mcpu=r4600 -mips2 -Wa,--trap -pipe -DMODULE -mlong-calls -c -o rrm.o rrm.c Assembler messages: Warning: The -mcpu option is deprecated. Please use -march and -mtune instead. Warning: The -march option is incompatible to -mipsN and therefore ignored. rrm.c:74: parse error before `this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' rrm.c:74: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' rrm.c:74: warning: data definition has no type or storage class rrm.c:75: parse error before `this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' rrm.c:75: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' rrm.c:75: warning: data definition has no type or storage class make[4]: *** [rrm.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-cvs/drivers/sgi/char' - Add rrm.o to export-objs, and sort the list of objects. Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/linux/drivers/sgi/char/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.13 diff -u -r1.13 Makefile --- Makefile 2001/03/11 03:35:59 1.13 +++ Makefile 2001/11/07 08:27:35 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ O_TARGET := sgichar.o -export-objs := newport.o shmiq.o sgicons.o usema.o +export-objs := newport.o rrm.o sgicons.o shmiq.o usema.o obj-y := newport.o shmiq.o sgicons.o usema.o streamable.o obj-$(CONFIG_SGI_SERIAL) += sgiserial.o -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mips-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org ==ORIGINAL MESSAGE END==
