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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1!miamiu!ai4cphyw Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386bsd Problem with vers.o on Recompile Message-ID: <92261.230114AI4CPHYW@MIAMIU.BITNET> From: <AI4CPHYW@MIAMIU.BITNET> Date: Thursday, 17 Sep 1992 23:01:14 EDT Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service Lines: 41 I was having problems with the system grinding to a halt while recompiling the kernel. To fix the problem I added some more RAM (going from 4MB to 10MB), now I get a really funny error. I saw that some of you have been getting errors about version being undefined, I have been getting errors that seem to suggest version is defined too many times. Specifically: vers.o: Definition of symbol _version (multiply defined) vers.o: Definition of symbol _version (multiply defined) *** Error Code 1 Stop The error displays just as shown above. To recompile I config'ed (machine name), a lightly changed copy of GENERICISA, and then copied ../GENERICISA/vers.c and version into the (machine name) directory. I then issued make newvers (to create vers.o) and then issued make depend and make. (The copying of the vers.c and version files and the make newvers were prompted by some instructions I saw posted to the net to get around the version undefined error). The entire recompile worked, but when the kernel tried to load, the above error message was given. My system has had the patchkit software applied (including the patched Makefile.i386) but due to disk constraints, the only sources on the disk are the /usr/src/sys.386bsd/* (the kernel sources). Do I need more source files on the disk? Or have I screwed up some other way? Any help or pointers to help would be greatly appreciated. -Alec D. Isaacson AI4CPHYW @ miamiu.acs.muohio.edu isaacson @ rogue.acs.muohio.edu (NeXt Mail) Miami University, Oxford, OH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Only a barbarian would eat chive cream cheese and blackberry jam on the same bagel. -Spenser