Folks, Redhat recently announced a security advisory recommending that 7.3 users upgrade to 2.4.20-13.7. To support our customer sites, I need to compile my device driver against this new kernel. Typically, I start by compiling the kernel distribution "out of the box" - i.e. using one of the redhat config files bundled with the kernel source RPM with no modifications. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be compiling (well, linking actually). Because MODVERSIONS is enabled, I'm reluctant to make any significant configuration changes for fear of creating a runtime incompatability issue. So, questions are: . I'm assuming this should build out of the box, so to speak. I figured this was how one achieved binary compatibility with redhat binary distributions. In other words, building the kernel source using one of the bundled .configs yielded a redhat binary distriubtion. Is that correct? . Has anyone run into this problem (see below)? Was there an easy fix that I'm missing? . Just what, exactly, can I do to my source tree without breaking binary compatibility as far as modversions is concerned? Build steps: . install kernel-source-2.4.20-13.7.rpm . make xconfig; read kernel-2.4.20-i686.config (no subsequent changes) . make dep . make bzImage Build goes fine, but fails on link step. make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7/arch/i386/mm' make all_targets make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7/arch/i386/mm' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all_targets'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7/arch/i386/mm' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7/arch/i386/mm' make CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7/include -Wall -Wstrict-pro totypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-poi nter -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 " -C arch/i386/lib make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7/arch/i386/lib' make all_targets make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7/arch/i386/lib' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all_targets'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7/arch/i386/lib' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7/arch/i386/lib' make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7' kallsyms pass 1 ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o init/do_mounts.o --start-group arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/char/drm/drm.o drivers/net/fc/fc.o drivers/net/appletalk/appletalk.o drivers/net/tokenring/tr.o drivers/net/wan/wan.o drivers/atm/atm.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o drivers/cdrom/driver.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/net/pcmcia/pcmcia_net.o drivers/net/wireless/wireless_net.o drivers/pnp/pnp.o drivers/video/video.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/md/mddev.o drivers/isdn/vmlinux-obj.o drivers/sensors/sensor.o net/network.o crypto/crypto.o /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7/arch/i386/lib/lib.a --end-group -o .tmp_vmlinux1 fs/fs.o: In function `zisofs_readpage': fs/fs.o(.text+0x2eec1): undefined reference to `zlib_inflateInit_' fs/fs.o(.text+0x2efce): undefined reference to `zlib_inflate' fs/fs.o(.text+0x2f162): undefined reference to `zlib_inflateEnd' fs/fs.o: In function `mnt_init': fs/fs.o(.text.init+0x8fc): undefined reference to `init_rootfs' fs/fs.o: In function `zisofs_init': fs/fs.o(.text.init+0xc78): undefined reference to `zlib_inflate_workspacesize' make[1]: *** [kallsyms] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2 -- Gary Cote gcote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
