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- From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Kernel rebuild - load error?
- Message-ID: <BRTMAC.92Aug29162542@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 23:25:41 GMT
- Article-I.D.: maverick.BRTMAC.92Aug29162542
- References: <1992Aug29.105853.10261@ctr.columbia.edu>
- <STARK.92Aug29073021@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu>
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- In-reply-to: stark@cs.sunysb.edu's message of Sat, 29 Aug 1992 12:30:21 GMT
-
- In article <STARK.92Aug29073021@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu> stark@cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) writes:
-
- >> I am trying to rebuild my kernel to change it so that my 3c503 ethernet
- >>adapter talks out its AUI port instead of the thinnet port. (Thanks for the
- >...
- >>shortly, I get the error:
- >>
- >> init_main.o: undefined symbol _version refrenced from text segment
- >> *** error code 1
- >
- >I got this, too, on my first attempt to recompile the kernel.
- >The problem is that "init_main.c" references the "version" string, but
- >the "config" program does not set up the file "vers.c" in your
- >compile directory. If you look at the GENERICISA compile directory,
- >you will find files "version" and "vers.c", and you will see that the
- >Makefile includes "vers.o" at the end of the list of files to be loaded.
- >
- >Since I was just hacking anyway, I just copied "vers.c" from the GENERICISA
- >directory and edited my Makefile. This is undoubtedly not the correct
- >solution, because if I re"config" the changes to the Makefile are reverted.
- >However, it enables me to load the system. I'd be happy to hear about
- >the correct fix.
-
- Look in mirrors4/386bsd/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/Makefile.i386.cgd on
- wuarchive.wustl.edu, or any of the other mirror sites, for the patches
- needed to fix this problem.
-
- ++Brett;
-