Announce: modutils 2.4.11 is available

Announce: modutils 2.4.11 is available

[Keith Owens]

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ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.4

modutils-2.4.11.tar.gz          Source tarball, includes RPM spec file
modutils-2.4.11-1.src.rpm       As above, in SRPM format
modutils-2.4.11-1.i386.rpm      Compiled with gcc 2.96 20000731,
				glibc 2.2.2.
patch-modutils-2.4.11.gz        Patch from modutils 2.4.10 to 2.4.11.

Related kernel patches.

patch-2.4.2-persistent.gz       Adds persistent data and generic string
				support to kernel 2.4.2 onwards.  Optional.

Changelog extract

	* Add taint printing to lsmod.
	* PPC64 support.  Alan Modra, Anton Blanchard.  Tweaked by Keith Owens.
	* HPPA64 configure fix.  Reported by Helge Deller, different fix by
	  Keith Owens.
	* PNPBIOS support.  Andrey Panin.
	* Add __sparc_dot_ to depmod.  Alex Buell.
	* Add generic __dot_ support to depmod.  Keith Owens.

Sparc and ia64 rpms to follow later.

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Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.11 is available

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 04:55:29PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:

> Changelog extract
> 
> 	* Add taint printing to lsmod.
> 	* PPC64 support.  Alan Modra, Anton Blanchard.  Tweaked by Keith Owens.

This (and all PPC support) won't compile now.  There's an extra #endif
in include/elf_ppc64.h

-- 
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/

--- modutils-2.4.11/include/elf_ppc64.h.orig	Sun Nov 11 10:03:12 2001
+++ modutils-2.4.11/include/elf_ppc64.h	Sun Nov 11 10:03:35 2001
@@ -85,5 +85,3 @@
 #define R_PPC64_GNU_VTINHERIT   R_PPC_GNU_VTINHERIT
 #define R_PPC64_GNU_VTENTRY     R_PPC_GNU_VTENTRY
 #endif	/* R_PPC64_ADDR64 */
-
-#endif

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.11 is available

[Matthew Jacob]

FWIW:

 obj_gpl_license.c
gcc -O2 -Wall -I./../include -D_GNU_SOURCE  -DCONFIG_ROOT_CHECK_OFF=0
-DCOMMON_3264 -DELF_MACHINE_H='"elf_ppc64.h"' -DARCH_ppc64 -DONLY_64 -c -o
obj_ppc64_64.o obj_ppc64.c
In file included from ../include/obj.h:34,
                 from obj_ppc64.c:25:
../include/elf_ppc64.h:89: unbalanced `#endif'
make[1]: *** [obj_ppc64_64.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modutils-2.4.11/obj'
make: *** [all] Error 2


PPC, with older (2.2) kernel

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.11 is available

[Keith Owens]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:46:05 -0800 (PST), 
Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:
>gcc -O2 -Wall -I./../include -D_GNU_SOURCE  -DCONFIG_ROOT_CHECK_OFF=0
>-DCOMMON_3264 -DELF_MACHINE_H='"elf_ppc64.h"' -DARCH_ppc64 -DONLY_64 -c -o
>obj_ppc64_64.o obj_ppc64.c
>In file included from ../include/obj.h:34,
>                 from obj_ppc64.c:25:
>../include/elf_ppc64.h:89: unbalanced `#endif'
>make[1]: *** [obj_ppc64_64.o] Error 1

My fault, remove the last two lines of include/elf_ppc64.h.