RE: RedHat Linux 5.9 & Kernel 2.2.6/Kernel 2.2.7

Andre Malafaya Baptista (Malafaya@milenio3.pt)
Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:41:22 +0100


How did you get kernel-2.2.7?
Have you patched to 2.2.6 then to 2.2.7?
I'm afraid 2.2.5-ac6 cannot be patched with official patches.

André Malafaya Baptista
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Espinoza [mailto:espinoza@thecity.sfsu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 7:16 PM
> To: linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: RedHat Linux 5.9 & Kernel 2.2.6/Kernel 2.2.7
>
>
> I am using RedHat Linux 5.9, I was able to compile kernel
> 2.2.5-ac6 without
> any modifications. When I tried compiling kernel 2.2.7 I got
> this error:
>
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.7/include -Wall
> -Wstrict-prototypes
> -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486
> -malign-loops=2
> -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -c -o iovec.o iovec.c
> iovec.c: In function `memcpy_toiovec':
> iovec.c:92: `err' undeclared (first use in this function)
> iovec.c:92: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> iovec.c:92: for each function it appears in.)
> iovec.c:76: warning: unused variable `evr'
> iovec.c:95: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
> make[3]: *** [iovec.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.7/net/core'
> make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.7/net/core'
> make[1]: *** [_subdir_core] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.7/net'
> make: *** [_dir_net] Error 2
>
> I got the exact same error when I was compiling kernel 2.2.6,
> yet I'm still
> using hte same .config. Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Erik Espinoza
>
>
> ============================================================
>
>
> -- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or looks
> -- unusual then possibly you have very old versions)
> Linux ftp.bearnet.org 2.2.5-ac6 #1 Thu Apr 8 13:04:44 PDT
> 1999 i686 unknown
> Kernel modules 2.1.121
> Gnu C egcs-2.91.66
> Binutils 2.9.1.0.22
> Linux C Library 2.1.1
> Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.1
> Procps 1.2.10
> Mount 2.9
> Net-tools (1999-01-01)
> Kbd [option...]
> Sh-utils 1.16
> Modules Loaded appletalk 3c59x
>
>
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