Nils Olav Selåsdal wrote:
> "Dan Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > 'make modules' in red hat 7.1 fails for me like this:
> >
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.2/drivers/net'
> > /usr/src/linux/include/asm/spinlock.h:8: nondigits in number and not
> hexadecimal
> >
> > Others have reported this problem, e.g.
> > http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/redhat-devel-list/msg02374.html
> > http://boudicca.tux.org/mhonarc/ma-linux/2001-Feb/msg00538.html
> > but nobody as far as I can see has posted the solution.
> >
> > Anyone have a clue they can lend me?
> did you do a make mrproper before starting ?
No. That was the problem.
- Dan
p.s.
For those interested in my confused thought process:
Initially, I (wrongly) assumed that 'rpm -i kernel-sources*' would yield
an already-configured installation (one where 'make' would build a kernel
matching the default kernel).
When that failed because there was no config file,
I (wrongly) assumed that 'rpm -i kernel-sources*' would at least yield
a clean installation (one where 'make mrproper' and 'make clean' had
already been done), and all I needed to do was generate the 'default'
config file by running 'make menuconfig' and saving without making
any changes.
When *that* failed, I whined for help here.
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