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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:22:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Calin A. Culianu" <calin@ajvar.org>
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To: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Cannot compile mandrake 8.2 Kernel
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Ah.  I am using gcc 2.96-76.  I think that may be the cause of my
problems?  You are right, of course, this isn't the right place to ask
this question.  I crossposted this on their mailing list as well, but
since i noticed one guy in here on April 4 also had this exact same
problem, I thought he or someone else might have encountered this and
solved it...


On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, David Relson wrote:

> At 03:10 PM 4/10/02, Calin A. Culianu wrote:
>
> >The stupid mandrake 8.2 kernel (2.4.18-mdk6) won't compile.  I know,
> >mandrake is kind of a newbie distro, but I needed to mess with that kernel
> >for some reason (don't ask).
> >
> >Anyway it gets errors like the following then you do make modules.  I
> >notices someone else also had the exact same problem.. also below is
> >preprocessor output from that compile... I think the problem is due to
> >some of the exported kernel symbols containing parens...:
>
>
> Calin,
>
> I think the proper place for this query is the Mandrake Expert mailing
> list, which can be subscribed to at expert@linux-mandrake.com.
>
> Mandrake has been around for several years and I've used their distribution
> (and often their kernels) since Mandrake 7.0.  I think it's incorrect to
> blame their "newness".
>
> What gcc are you running?  gcc-3.0.4 has worked fine for me in building
> 2.4.18 kernels on 8.2.
>
> David
>
>

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