On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:49:34PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Il mar, 2003-12-16 alle 19:45, Joe Malik ha scritto: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:05:42PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > today I rsync'd from linux-2.4-benh and I tried to compile the kernel. I > > > get some errors that I cannot fix. Could anyone help me? > > > > > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4-benh/include -Wall > > > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common > > > -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/src/linux-2.4-benh/arch/ppc -fsigned-char > > > -msoft-float -pipe -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring > > > -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=nvram -c -o nvram.o > > > nvram.c > > > nvram.c: In function `nvram_ioctl': > > > nvram.c:78: error: `OBSOLETE_PMAC_NVRAM_GET_OFFSET' undeclared (first > > > use in this function) > [suggestion that turned out to be irrelevant to this] > > Thanks joe, I did try as you suggested but It did not fix the problem. > Moreover I think that something is broken in the kernel. Look at this > > eppesuig3:/usr/src/linux-2.4-benh# grep -r IOC_NVRAM_GET_OFFSET . > ./drivers/macintosh/nvram.c: case IOC_NVRAM_GET_OFFSET: { > eppesuig3:/usr/src/linux-2.4-benh#
I just rsynced and tried compiling with the same config as before and got the very same error you got. So you guessed correctly, there is something broken in the kernel. > > Anyway thanks, > Giuseppe > Joe