Re: [Dprobes] problem compiling on standard RedHat 7.3 installation

[Vamsi K. S . <va...@in...>]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 03:55:09PM -0800, Luigi Semenzato wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem compiling a kernel with dprobes on a stock
> RH 7.3 installation and I wonder if anybody ran into the
> same problem (and has a workaround).
> 
> I downloaded the dprobes 3.6.3 patches and applied them with
> a few small conflicts that were trivial to fix by hand.  I
> configured the kernel with
> 
> CONFIG_HOOK=y
> CONFIG_DPROBES=y
> CONFIG_DPROBES_CORE=y
> 
You may want to turn on "Global Debug Registers" (CONFIG_DR_ALLOC)
too.

> but when I compile dprobes_hook.c, the preprocessor turns
> the three USE_HOOKS statements into a bunch of spaces
> (exactly the number of spaces taken by the unexpanded
> statements) instead of the expected declarations.
> 
> I am using gcc 2.96 20000731, and the kernel is 2.4.18-3
> i686.
> 
I use the exact same compiler. no problems. Just to be
sure, would you mind trying with the patch attached?
It is dprobes v3.6.4 on RH 2.4.18-5, which is what I have
readily on hand.

Let us know how it goes. Thanks.
Vamsi.
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