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I've been having a problem lately when trying to upgrade kernels. For some reason, the compile goes fine until it gets to stage 2, then comes up with a slew ...
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  1. 09-21-2005 #1
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    Problem compiling kernels and modules

    I've been having a problem lately when trying to upgrade kernels. For some reason, the compile goes fine until it gets to stage 2, then comes up with a slew of undefined warnings for really essential functions (vmalloc, printk, etc.). It seems that it does this for every function call in every module.

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BUILD   arch/i386/boot/bzImage
Root device is (3, 2)
Boot sector 512 bytes.
Setup is 6590 bytes.
System is 1150 kB
Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST
*** Warning: "vmalloc" [sound/soundcore.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "malloc_sizes" [sound/soundcore.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "class_simple_create" [sound/soundcore.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "filp_close" [sound/soundcore.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "vfree" [sound/soundcore.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "sprintf" [sound/soundcore.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "vfs_read" [sound/soundcore.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "printk" [sound/soundcore.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "class_simple_device_remove" [sound/soundcore.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "preempt_schedule" [sound/soundcore.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "kmem_cache_alloc" [sound/soundcore.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "register_chrdev" [sound/soundcore.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "wake_up_process" [sound/soundcore.ko] undefined!
    This continues on for pages and pages. I've tried with multiple gentoo kernels, and a couple of vanilla kernels, so it's a confirmed problem with my computer. I've also tried three versions of gcc. Modules I compile outside of the kernel (http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net) fail with the same problems.

    Nobody I've shown understands what's going on. Does anyone have a clue what's going on, or a direction to point me in?
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  2. 09-26-2005 #2
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    That's quite odd...it seems like a path issue or possible a borked ebuild. Have you tried un-merging and re-merging that kernel? What about different kernels?
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  3. 09-26-2005 #3
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    I've tried with multiple gentoo kernels, and a couple of vanilla kernels.
    The symlink is fine. The fact that compiling modules outside of the kernel (like ibm-acpi) has the same problem would make me think that the compiler isn't including or linking something right, but I get no errors to help me figure that out.
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