Re: Problems compiling 1.1.54

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From: Anthony Lovell
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 18:52

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WE Metzenthen (billm@jacobi.maths.monash.edu.au) wrote:

: RTFM (Read The Failure Message ;-), then look at binfmt_elf.c and
: take about 1 minute to conclude that binfmt_elf.c actually contains
: two complete (but slightly different) versions of the same thing.
: Then look at patch54.gz to confirm that Linus didn't have a
: binfmt_elf.c to patch against -- SNAFU.

: Solution: A number of possibilities, but I chose to edit binfmt_elf.c
: by hand to remove the old version from the file.

I'm supprised that so many people had problems with that, it doesn't take
much to look at the error and read the file that failed.

--

anthony

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