[tlug] kernel compilation questions

["Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jean_christian@example.com>]

Thanks to Sajjad's pretty clear instructions I have been able to (finally!) 
compile a kernel. Now I am trying my hand at compiling a kernel from SGI's 
2.4.18-xfs source tree.

At the 'make modules_install' step however I get the following error:

depmod:  *** Unresolved symbols in 
/lib/modules/2.4.18-xfs/kernel/fs/binfmt_elf.o

I'm sure I'll be able to fix this by playing around with the .config file 
and togggling some option that has to do with ELF files ... but my question 
is:

- what does this error mean? I am trying to compile a module that the kernel 
hasn't been compiled to accept?
- Why wasn't this error caught earlier? How can I check before starting 
compilation that there won't be any such errors? (The reason I ask this is 
that it's really annoying to get an error at the last stage of compilation 
... considering my machine is pretty slow ... about 30 minutes to compile a 
new kernel ...)

Thanks!

Jc

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