Re: [Linux-decnet-user] compiling 2.26 / ifconfig

[Steven W. <st...@ch...>]

Hi,

This is becoming a common problem... turn off CONFIG_DECNET_SIOCGIFCONF
or patch your ifconfig. I wonder whether I should just remove this
option anyway? Does anybody actually use it? At least I'm thinking of
commenting it out in the config file to make it less easy for people
to turn it on by accident.

Its not possible to remove the decnet module because it needs a lot of
work to add all the clean ups required. If someone wants to add them,
then there is no reason not to make it removable,

Steve.

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:40:30PM +0100, Alex Finch wrote:
> 
>  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.
> 
> 
> 
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