Re: exporting kernel symbols

[Keith Owens]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:13:38 +0000, 
"kumar M" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>On a freshly installed RedHat 7.1 machine
>with 2.4.2-2 kernel,  a 'make modules'
>throws up  errors such as  :
>----------------------------------------
>/usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/module.h:173: nondigits in number and not 
>hexadecimal
>/usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/module.h:173: parse error before `62dada05'
>/usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/module.h:173: 
>`inter_module_register_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function
>/usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/module.h:173: warning: function declaration 
>isn't a prototype
>.......................................................
>
>So we do a 'make mrproper' and 'make menuconfig' and
>save and exit without any changes to configuration.
>Then we rebuild the kernel.
>make dep & make modules are done smoothly.
>
>Can you let us know why we should be doing make mrproper
>on a system freshly installed  with redhat 7.1(2.4.2-2smp)

RedHat do something strange with module symbols.  I have never
understood what they are trying to do nor why it messes up a normal
kernel compile.  Ask RH what the build procedure is for their
distributed kernels and why a normal build goes wrong.