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Compile error



At 12:10 PM 1/21/01 -0500, you wrote:
>>         Hopeing there is an easy answer to this question. Was trying to
upgrade to
>> the 2.4.0 kernel, useing William Stearns buildkernel. Everything seemed to
>> be going well, untill I started getting 'current' undeclared in a number of
>> functions. I have attached the text from the make. Before thrashing at
>> configure options, does anyone here happen to know what I may have not
>> included or may have mangled that declares 'current'? Thanks in advance for
>> any advice!
>
>The first thing that comes to mind is that this buildkernel package
>isn't updated for 2.4.0 (I've never used it).  What happens when you
>take the make mrproper; make xconfig; make dep; make clean; make
>bzImage; make modules; make modules_install approach with a clean
>source?
>
Thanks! After taking some calming breaths, I went ahead and gave it a shot.
Doing it manually, I got a different error when running make modules
(setting up ftp server as a module). Once I changed the config to just not
use ftp server, everything went fine.

Now to reboot into the new kernel and see what happens! ;-}
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