problems with .88

Erv Walter (edwalter@ewok.not.for.mail)
Sun, 14 Apr 1996 11:29:52 -0500 (EST)

> I am having some trouble with 1.3.88. First I compiled it on a friends
> machine (like I have for all of the last 20 kernels without a problem) with
> gcc 2.7.0. When I installed it on my computer, it worked fine except depmod
> -a reported unresolved symbols in all of the modules. This has never
> happened before. What is more is that manually insmoding any of the modules
> worked without any problems. I don't know what was wrong here....
>
> For the seconds problem.... Yesterday I installed gcc 2.7.2 with the new
> binutils, libc, and libg++. I followed the instructions exactly and
> everything appears to have worked. I compiled several programs without
> error. On a whim, I decided to recompile 1.3.88 with my gcc 2.7.2. THe
> compile went fine. When I booted this kernel, depmod still said unresolved
> symbols for every module. In addition, when I try to insmod a module from
> the gcc 2.7.2 compiled, I get the following errors that i didn't get from
> the gcc 2.7.0 compile:
>
> [root] -=#> insmod dummy.o
> gcc2_compiled. undefined
> Failed to load module! The symbols from kernel 1.3.88 don't match 1.3.88
>

Sorry. I upgraded to the experimental modules-1.3.69f, and all the problems
went away...

Thanks
Erv

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