how do i...

[mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 12:01:05 -0600, mol-general-request@lists.maconlinux.org composed:
> 
> hi,
> 
> i'm pretty newto the list, just been lurking for a little. how do i
> configure and compile earlier versions of MOL if i don't have a
> configure script in the untarred 'ball that i got from the MOL archives?
> i can't run the later versions of MOL 'cuz of my old CPU, a 601, inside
> a 7500. i would really like to be able to run MOL, but this compiling
> problem haunts my compilation:
> 
> in molsymglue.c lines 53 to 58, i get something about
> 'this_has_to_be_set_in_the_Makefile' errors, and the compilation stops
> with error 1 and 2.

here's some of the real output, whihc i didn't have at the time i wrote
the above:


###### start make output ######

Entering '/home/simon/downloads/mol-0.9.60/kernel_module'
gcc -pipe -Wall -O2 -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -msoft-float -fno-builtin -I./
-I./include -I/home/simon/downloads/mol-0.9.60/sinclude -I-
-I/usr/src/linux/include -c -o molsymglue.o molsymglue.c
molsymglue.c:38: parse error before
`this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile'
molsymglue.c:38: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of
`this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile'
molsymglue.c:38: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
molsymglue.c:39: parse error before
`this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile'
molsymglue.c:39: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of
`this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile'
molsymglue.c:39: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
molsymglue.c:40: parse error before
`this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile'
molsymglue.c:40: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of
`this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile'
molsymglue.c:40: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
make[1]: *** [molsymglue.o] Error 1
make: *** [_subdir_kernel_module] Error 2

###### end output ######