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Can't believe this... :(

Installed a fresh copy of redhat 7.1
I go into /usr/src/linux-2.4
Copy the 2.4 smp config from config/ to .config
make dep
make bzImage
make modules

Modules compile fails.

In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/spinlock.h:35,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/module.h:11,
                 from eni.c:6:
/usr/src/linux-2.4/include/asm/spinlock.h:8: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal
/usr/src/linux-2.4/include/asm/spinlock.h:8: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal
/usr/src/linux-2.4/include/asm/spinlock.h:8: parse error before `1b7d4074'
/usr/src/linux-2.4/include/asm/spinlock.h:9: `printk_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function
/usr/src/linux-2.4/include/asm/spinlock.h:9: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
In file included from eni.c:6:
/usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/module.h:173: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal

... and so on and so on... :(

Any ideas how to fix this?
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Figured it out, at least maybe me asking a dumb question might help
someone else doing a deja search for this in the future (which I did
before asking).

make mrproper

I didn't do that.

Sigh... I guess I figured that you couldn't get any cleaner than a fresh
install, but I guessed wrong. Loads of damn .ver files are in there that
apparently*up the module compile.

So, boys and girls:

read the stuff at --

http://www.veryComputer.com/

then...

make mrproper
copy a canned .config file from config/
make menuconfig (or whatever)
edit Makefile and add your own unique version string, as recommended above.
  (I needed to change it to smp since all I want is to update one module...)
make dep
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install

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