From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270291AbTGWNLb (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:11:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270295AbTGWNLb (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:11:31 -0400 Received: from rth.ninka.net ([216.101.162.244]:43392 "EHLO rth.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270291AbTGWNKm (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:10:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 06:25:41 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: bgs@callnet.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6-test1 : make *config doesn't work Message-Id: <20030723062541.74b8f35c.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <200307231211.h6NCBoel010001@harpo.it.uu.se> References: <200307231211.h6NCBoel010001@harpo.it.uu.se> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:11:50 +0200 (MEST) Mikael Pettersson wrote: > I reported this ages ago, but noone cared to fix it. > The problem is (a) modpost was changed to reference a SPARC-only > ELF constant, Nothing about STT_REGISTER being Sparc specific contributes to this problem, STT_REGISTER (along with other platform specific defines) exists in /usr/include/elf.h regardless of which platform you are actually using. > (b) modpost is compiled against the system's C > library headers instead of the kernel's, and (c) older versions > of glibc don't have this constant defined (at least not on x86). Please update so that you have an uptodate /usr/include/elf.h file. Really, that is the fix.