[gentoo-dev] gs-sources problems: device mapper: dm.o has undeclared identifiers

[Kevin]

Dear developers-

My apologies if this is the wrong forum, but I'm getting no answers in 
[gentoo-user] and this seems like an important issue, not just to me but 
perhaps to lots of people trying to install Gentoo.  I'm doing everything 
exactly in accordance with the Gentoo Handbook, and I can't even get a 
fully functional kernel (bzImage yes, but not the modules).  Could I 
please get some expert attention to this problem?  Should I file a bug 
report?  Thanks very kindly for any replies.

-Kevin

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Subject: [gentoo-user] gs-sources problems: device mapper: dm.o has 
undeclared identifiers
Date: Friday 23 April 2004 12:28
From: Kevin <gentoo-user@××××××.biz>
To: gentoo user <gentoo-user@l.g.o>

Hi All-

I'm trying to do a stage 1 installation on a Dell PE1600SC with 1 Xeon
2.4GHz processor and having some problems getting the modules for the
kernel built.  I booted with the minimal CD from:
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/2004.0/livecd
/universal/install-x86-minimal-2004.0.iso and used the stage1 tarball
from:
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/2004.0/stages
/x86/hardened/stage1-x86-pie-ssp-2004.0.tar.bz2

I've been following the Handbook step by step; I chose the gs-sources
since this will be a server and every step of the install process worked
fine up until I tried to make modules.  At that point, the build failed
with these messages:

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.25_pre7-gss-r3/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common
-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=pentium4
-DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS
-include /usr/src/linux-2.4.25_pre7-gss-r3/include/linux/modversions.h
-nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=dm  -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c
dm.c
dm.c: In function `alloc_md':
dm.c:785: error: `mempool_alloc_slab' undeclared (first use in this
function)
dm.c:785: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
dm.c:785: error: for each function it appears in.)
dm.c:786: error: `mempool_free_slab' undeclared (first use in this
function)
make[2]: *** [dm.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.25_pre7-gss-r3/drivers/md'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_md] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.25_pre7-gss-r3/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
livecd linux #

can someone tell me what's wrong here and how to fix it?  It looks to me
like maybe I'm missing a header file or something, but I've been doing
exactly what the Handbook says to do.

Thanks.

-Kevin


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