Re: compile problem

Nils Faerber
2003-05-26T16:13:27Z

On Mon, 26 May 2003 09:44:50 +0000
sjb <ottaky-XuTx12Z7TonQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Apologies for this not being a strictly ACPI problem.

It looks so, yes.

> I'm trying to compile an ACPI enabled kernel for my Vaio. I've tried
> numerous combinations of kernel sources and patches as per the
> pointers from members of this list.
>
> However, I always get this error during "make modules_install"
>
> Not being a seasoned kernel builder, I really don't know what's wrong
> and I was wondering if anybody here can tell me what's up.

The problem you are seein is that symbols of the built modules do not
resolve to kernel symbols. This can have several reasons. One simple one
is that those modules indeed reference something that isn't there
(anymore).
The second one is that your build symbol tables have become confused.
This may happen when patching kernel and/or modifying the kernel
configuration. This can be resolved by doing (inside the toplevel kernel
directory):
mv .config ..
make mrproper
mv ../.config .
make oldconfig
make dep
make bzImage modules modules_install

This helped me several times ;)

And last but not least the brute force method... unless you need those
modules, simply remove them from /lib/modules/* :)

> TIA
> sjb
CU
nils

> cd /lib/modules/2.4.20; \
> mkdir -p pcmcia; \
> find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{}
> pcmcia if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map
> 2.4.20; fi depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/mtd/maps/sc520cdp.o
> depmod: mtd_concat_create_R606fc87b
> depmod: mtd_concat_destroy_R9c645004
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/net/wan/comx.o
> depmod: proc_get_inode
>

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