Re: Linux-2.4.11-pre5

Alessandro Suardi (alessandro.suardi@oracle.com)
Sun, 07 Oct 2001 23:17:09 +0200


Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> I get the error below. Must likely there's a problem when you build a
> kernel without module support (my .config is attached).
>
> ...
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/bunk/linux/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=k6 -c -o exec_domain.o exec_domain.c

[snip]

> This seems to be triggered by the following change in pre5:
>
> --- linux/include/linux/module.h
> +++ linux/include/linux/module.h
> @@ -348,6 +348,13 @@
> #define EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOVERS(var) error config_must_be_included_before_module
> #define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(var) error config_must_be_included_before_module
>
> +#elif !defined(EXPORT_SYMTAB)
> +
> +#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym,str) error this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile
> +#define EXPORT_SYMBOL(var) error this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile
> +#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOVERS(var) error this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile
> +#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(var) error this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile
> +
> #elif !defined(CONFIG_MODULES)
>
> #define __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym,str)

Happens also for ieee1394 when built as module.

--alessandro

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