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okay here's the scoop,  i DLed 1.3.79 and extracted it, i did a make dep,
make mrproper, make config, and then did my make zImage.  when it was
compiling the char drivers i got an error in consolemap.o, it said that
it could not find uni_hash.tbl. after some poking around i found out that
make mrproper rm'd uni_hash.tbl and conmakehash and that when you did the
make it would actually make uni_hash.tbl and conmakehash AFTER
consolemap.o and then cause the errors above.  is this a bug or am i not
supposed to do a make mrproper, it just does not seem to make sense to me
that it would make two files after a file that needs them is made.  well
i ffixed this by deleting consolemap.o from the /drivers/char Makefile
and then doing a make zImage and then ^c'ing after it made conmakehash
and uni_hash.tbl, then editing the Makefile again (added consolemap.o)
and then doing the make zImage.  there has to be an easier way, no more
make mrproper maybe but the kernel howto actually recommends this.  well
some explanations would be cool.
thanks,

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Jim,

I had problems when I extracted the 1.3.79 source tree. In my workspace
where I have these kernel sources I had a symbolic link from linux
to linux.1.2.13 and so when I extracted 1.3.79, I actually wrote into
the 1.2.13 tree.

Don't know if this is your case, but a lot of my "flakey" problems went
away when I deleted this mess and started over from scratch.

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on the spot...(a bit late maybe)

Quote:> okay here's the scoop,  i DLed 1.3.79 and extracted it, i did a make
dep,
> make mrproper, make config, and then did my make zImage.

you should have done :
        mk mrproper; make config; make dep; make clean;make zImage...
I think it should work in that order, regenerate the depending file after
a mrproper, it is obligatory.

Quote:>  when it was
> compiling the char drivers i got an error in consolemap.o, it said that
> it could not find uni_hash.tbl. after some poking around i found out that
> make mrproper rm'd uni_hash.tbl and conmakehash and that when you did the
> make it would actually make uni_hash.tbl and conmakehash AFTER
> consolemap.o and then cause the errors above.  is this a bug or am i not
> supposed to do a make mrproper, it just does not seem to make sense to me
> that it would make two files after a file that needs them is made.  well
> i ffixed this by deleting consolemap.o from the /drivers/char Makefile
> and then doing a make zImage and then ^c'ing after it made conmakehash
> and uni_hash.tbl, then editing the Makefile again (added consolemap.o)
> and then doing the make zImage.  there has to be an easier way, no more
> make mrproper maybe but the kernel howto actually recommends this.  well
> some explanations would be cool.
> thanks,

another Chris.

 better late than never

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