[Linux-decnet-user] compiling 2.26 / ifconfig

[Alex F. <A....@la...>]

  I have a couple of problems with linux-decnet. It works ( version 2.23) - 
however...



1) Installing the decnet module stops ifconfig working:

    modprobe decnet
    ifconfig
    : error fetching interface information: Device not found


      I also find that my nis-client will occasionally die, and I suspect it is 
   also due to decnet, but I have not proved it.

  So far as I know I have got my kernel compiled correctly, .config contains

CONFIG_DECNET=m
CONFIG_DECNET_SIOCGIFCONF=y


  2) I can not compile 2.26, it says:


-- gcc -pipe -fdollars-in-identifiers -fsigned-char -Wstrict-prototypes -Wall
-Wno-unused -Wno-uninitialized -I../libdap -I../include -DVERSION=\"2.26\"
-D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE 
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DSHADOW_PWD -DDNETUSE_DEVPTS -g 
-Wl,-rpath-link,../libdnet -Wl,-rpath-link,../libdap -o example example.o -L. -lrms
../libdap/libdap.so.2: undefined reference to `atexit'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

  I compile with:

  gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.3/specs
gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)

  My kernel is 2.4.13

  3) Why is it not possible to remove the decnet module?


	cheers,


	Alex Finch
  Alex Finch, Research Fellow, Physics Department, Lancaster University.