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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5830 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:57:18 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!wupost!usc!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!aio!mickey!poirot From: poirot@mickey.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel Poirot) Subject: Re: [386bsd] Kernel build dies, unref symbol _version Message-ID: <1993Jan2.004817.26258@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (USENET News System) Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center References: <17701@umd5.umd.edu> <1992Dec26.235116.3795@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <id.E4CW.XE@ferranti.com> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:48:17 GMT Lines: 20 In article <id.E4CW.XE@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes: >In article <1992Dec26.235116.3795@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >> In article <17701@umd5.umd.edu> mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: >> >In article <BznK64.AGL@NeoSoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: >> >>>"init_main.o: something about an unreferenced symbol _version" >> >>>is there a standard fix for this? > >> >>Yeah, ATFP. Add The Fine Patchkit. This problem is fixed by patch #1. > >I did. It isn't. You have to "make newvers" to get a vers.c file to resolve >this symbol. This should be documented. :-> Actually, shouldn't the Makefile target '386bsd' depend on 'vers.o'? Wouldn't that solve the problem? I think that a patch to the kernel Makefile is in order. -- Daniel Poirot poirot@aio.jsc.nasa.gov NASA JSC "The mind is a terrible thing." ER3 tel: (713)483-8793 Houston, TX 77058 fax: (713)483-3204