make moduels failed on linux-2.4.21-15.EL

[Jurvis LaSalle]

On May 25, 2004, at 12:11 PM, Yasushi Okubo wrote:

>
> I just applied patches to our WS3.0 machines through up2date and got 
> kernel-source too.  However, it failed to compile kernel. The 
> following is the steps I took.  Please advise me how to get rid of 
> errors.
>
> 1. I opened make menuconfig/xconfig
> 2. Turn on IEEE1394 option
> 3. save & exit
> 4. make dep  <-- it looked okay
> 5. make modules failed with many "implicit declaration of function" 
> errors
>
> So, after make clean, I turned off IEEE1394 option and saved it, but  
> it looks like it still produced the same errors with make modules.  It 
> looks like kenern-source for linux-2.4.21-15.EL never be  able to be 
> compiled due to anomalities in many libraries.
>
> Here is the example of output:
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/include/linux/mm.h:142: syntax error 
> before numeric constant
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/include/linux/mm.h:142: warning: function 
> declaration isn't a prototype
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/include/linux/mm.h:143: warning: parameter 
> names (without types) in function declaration
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/include/linux/mm.h:545: invalid suffix on 
> integer constant
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/include/linux/mm.h:545: syntax error 
> before numeric constant
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/include/linux/mm.h:545: 
> `free_pages_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/include/linux/mm.h:545: warning: function 
> declaration isn't a prototype
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/include/linux/mm.h:641: syntax error 
> before numeric constant
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/include/linux/mm.h:641: 
> `__get_free_pages_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/include/linux/mm.h:641: warning: function 
> declaration isn't a prototype
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/include/linux/mm.h:642: invalid suffix on 
> integer constant
> .....
> ......
> ...
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/include/net/sock.h:1361: warning: implicit 
> declaration of function `put_cmsg_Rsmp_f39bf4d9'
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/include/linux/skbuff.h: In function 
> `kunmap_skb_frag':
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/include/linux/skbuff.h:1152: warning: asm 
> operand 1 probably doesn't match constraints
> make[3]: *** [module.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/drivers/addon/cipe'
> make[2]: *** [_modsubdir_cipe] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/drivers/addon'
> make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_addon] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-15.EL/drivers'
> make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
>
>

after you enable your specific options with xconfig, mv the .config 
file created in /usr/src/linux out of the src tree, make mrproper, then 
mv .config back, do a make oldconfig, make dep; make clean, make 
bzImage, make modules...  this worked for me the last time i got a 
slough of cryptic compilation errors  on make modules.

hth,
Jurvis LaSalle