Kernel compilation failure ...

[Odhiambo Washington]

* On 21/05/07 09:51 +0200, Claus Guttesen wrote:
| >I am running -CURRENT on my desktop, csup-ped sources even today
| >- 20070521.
| >For the last one week or so, I cannot successfully compile a kernel.
| >Always fails here:
| >
| ><cut>
| >cc -shared -nostdlib hack.c -o hack.So
| >rm -f hack.c
| >MAKE=make sh /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh alligator
| >cc -c -O -pipe  -std=c99 -g -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs 
| >-Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline 
| >-Wcast-qual  -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions -nostdinc  -I. 
| >-I/usr/src/sys -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/altq -D_KERNEL 
| >-DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS -include opt_global.h -fno-common 
| >-finline-limit=8000 --param inline-unit-growth=100 --param 
| >large-function-growth=1000  -mno-align-long-strings 
| >-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 
| >-mno-sse3 -ffreestanding   vers.c
| >linking kernel.debug
| >if_ural.o(.text+0xe8f): In function `ural_attach':
| >/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/if_ural.c:491: undefined reference to 
| >`ieee80211_amrr_init'
| >if_ural.o(.text+0x2fa5): In function `ural_task':
| >/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/if_ural.c:2360: undefined reference to 
| >`ieee80211_amrr_node_init'
| >if_ural.o(.text+0x3179): In function `ural_amrr_update':
| >/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/if_ural.c:2418: undefined reference to 
| >`ieee80211_amrr_choose'
| >*** Error code 1
| 
| Something with a wireless usb-card in your kernel-config maybe? Is it
| ALLIGATOR a copy of GENERIC or customized?

The only customization I did involved commenting out the WITNESS 
options.
I have `cp GENERIC ALLIGATOR` now and tried again and it did not fail. 
Perhaps there were things added to GENERIC within the period I have
had these failures, which I needed to add to ALLIGATOR.

So I have learnt my lesson: I need to diff my kernel config file against
GENERIC so often as to NOT miss any changes that have been made into
GENERIC.

Thank you all for the pointers.

PS: Is anyone using -CURRENT as their Desktop? I deinstalled gain 
    1.5.x and now compiling pidgin IM client is a pain as well. I am not
    sure it is right to discuss that in -current though!


-Wash

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