Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc1

[Andreas Metzler <lkml-2003-03@downhill.at.eu.org>]

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> Here goes the first candidate for 2.4.21.
 
> Please test it extensively.

I'd love to, but the problem reported in 

Subject: [2.4.21-pre5] compile error in ip_conntrack_ftp.c:440:
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:56:37 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <b44s65$pdl$1@main.gmane.org>
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0303.0/1008.html

still applies - I cannot compile the kernel.

Fetch either
http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/2.4.20.breaks.config
or use the example in the original mail as .config (after make mrproper),
run "make dep clean"  followed by "make modules" and get this:
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gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/tmp/kerneltest/linux-2.4.20/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototype
s -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe
 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /tmp/k
erneltest/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/modversions.h  -nostdinc -iwithprefix inclu
de -DKBUILD_BASENAME=ip_conntrack_ftp  -c -o ip_conntrack_ftp.o ip_conntrack_ftp
.c
ip_conntrack_ftp.c:440: parse error before `this_object_must_be_defined_as_expor
t_objs_in_the_Makefile'
ip_conntrack_ftp.c:440: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `this_
object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile'
ip_conntrack_ftp.c:440: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
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                  cu andreas