Bug 37534 – Cannot build openmosix kernel-2.4.22-r3 with crypto API enabled

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Carsten Frewert 2004-01-07 15:23:58 UTC]

Building an openMosix kernel with CONFIG_CRYPTO=y fails with linker errors
during "make bzImage" because the files in 
<kernel-source-toplevel-dir>/crypto/ are not compiled before linking.

Perhaps the openMosix-patch breaks the Makefile for kernels with the new cryptographic API.
(I won't investigate further as the fix is trivial, see attached patch)

[Comment 1 Carsten Frewert 2004-01-07 15:26:29 UTC]

Created attachment 23352 [details, diff]
patch for openMosix kernel makefile

[Comment 2 Michael Imhof (RETIRED) 2004-01-07 16:08:30 UTC]

Wouldn't your patch enable crypto all the time?

[Comment 3 Carsten Frewert 2004-01-08 02:10:16 UTC]

It's the same as in the Makefile of recent gentoo-sources.
I think the files in crypto/ will be compiled in any case, but
linking or building modules depends on CONFIG_CRYPTO=y.

[Comment 4 Michael Imhof (RETIRED) 2004-01-10 02:07:19 UTC]

Thanks for your help.
I checked in your patch.

Please report back if everything is as intended ;)

[Comment 5 Carsten Frewert 2004-01-13 10:24:19 UTC]

Compiles as expected now.
(And the kernel w/o crypto API is smaller than with crypto API, just to reassure you ;-)
One bug less, thanks for the quick response.

[Comment 6 Michael Imhof (RETIRED) 2004-01-13 11:50:28 UTC]

Great!
Thanks for your help with this!