Re: kmsgdump 0.4 fails compile

Alan Modra (alan@SPRI.Levels.UniSA.Edu.Au)
Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:24:02 +0930 (CST)


On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Willy Tarreau wrote:

> > With kernel 2.2.12 and patches from Jens Axboe for the CDROM (sep14-2.2.diff),
> > kmsgdump 0.4 causes the kernel compile to fail with:
>
> yes, sorry I've just noticed it too. My assembler doesn't complain, but others
> do. It seems they don't like the division in #defines. I don't understand why.

It's a bug in binutils, fixed around June 1998. linux gas versions before
this tried to be compatible with some brain-dead assemblers that use `/'
to begin a comment.

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