Re: Compiling 3.0a gives me tons of errors

[Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bodo Staron wrote:
> Then:
> linux:/home/bstaron/loop-AES-v3.0a# make LINUX_SOURCE=/home/bstaron/linux-2.6.8.1
> 
> Then it gives me pages after pages of errors. I don't know if I should
> send this to the list, I guess not.... it's 25kb zipped.
> 
> The last couple of lines:
> /home/bstaron/loop-AES-v3.0a/patched-loop.c:837: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

Looks like the kernel sources in /home/bstaron/linux-2.6.8.1/ are not ready
for module compiling.

The fix is to recompile and install new kernel in that kernel source
directory and then compile a new loop module for for that new kernel.
Something like this:

    cd /home/bstaron/linux-2.6.8.1/
    mv .config z
    make distclean
    mv z .config
    make oldconfig
    make dep && make clean && make bzImage
    make modules && make modules_install
    cat arch/i386/boot/bzImage >/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1
    cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.8.1

    cd /home/bstaron/loop-AES-v3.0a
    make LINUX_SOURCE=/home/bstaron/linux-2.6.8.1

Then configure bootloader to boot new kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1
Then boot to new kernel.

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