Re: Problems compiling 1.1.54

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From: John Saunders
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 07:23

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Anthony Lovell (alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> 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.

I'm surprised that I didn't have this problem. How did I manage to
patch Linux all the way to 1.1.56 without this problem occuring?

BTW why does binfmt_elf.c exist in both the icbs and fs directories?
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Subject: Re: Problems compiling 1.1.54
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