devfs errors at kernel compile

tukem · Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2002 7:12 am Post subject: devfs errors at kernel compile

Hi there

I've been trying to get my other machine (P120 48MB ) run gentoo but kernel compiling introduces some problems. As everyone else I also forgot to select DEVFS support in the first try so I just went on and tried to recompile. This time I however got following kind of errors

base.c: 2254 : redefinition of 'devfs_register_blkdev'
/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-gentoo-r7/include/linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h : 251
'devfs_register_blkdev' previously defined here

I got similar messages at least from devfs_unregister_chrdev, devfs_unregister_blkdev, devfs_register_chrdev and mount_devfs_fs.

My initial kernel was the xfs-kernel but when that didn't work I tried gentoo-kernel. That didn't work either so I unmerged both and tried gentoo-kernel again. This morning I rebooted with install cd, mounted my drives, changed to chrooted environment and started compile. Hopefully it works better this time

tukem · Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2002 3:44 pm Post subject: It worked!

This time it actually worked. Now only if I just weren't writing this in lynx I would insert one of those faces here ;-)

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Anyone care to give a good (but simple) explanation why I got those error messages.

And now maybe some more programs...