I too had this problem - is there a proper doc for compiling this outside of gentoo or dbeian or whatever it was originally written for -

c'mon guys ... all your hard work should be free ... right?

(Actually I'm working on a bootable educational cd that is going to be apppliance ware - so I would like to get cloop working.)

The original errors I had was that it was looking for conf.vars in the linux source tree, somthing that seems to be non-standard. I touched the conf.vars file, but hen found some doc on the net that showed that it looks like conf.vars & .config are the same thing - not sure. Copied .config to conf.vars and the thing seemed to compile, oh and there was a problem with another file, but being an idiot I cannot remember the file name, but I touched it as well - so the thing finally compiles and when insmod'ing the thing I got the same errors.

Quote Originally Posted by ghstridr
It seems to compile fine with a few warnings for create_* and extract_* (cc wants to see endian.h instead of byteorder.h).
when I do an insmod -p cloop, I get:
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/cloop.o: unresolved symbol kunmap_high
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/cloop.o: unresolved symbol filp_open
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/cloop.o: unresolved symbol register_disk
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/cloop.o: unresolved symbol blk_queue_bounce
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/cloop.o: unresolved symbol register_blkdev
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/cloop.o: unresolved symbol blk_queue_make_request
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/cloop.o: unresolved symbol filp_close
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/cloop.o: unresolved symbol do_generic_file_read
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/cloop.o: unresolved symbol highmem_start_page
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/cloop.o: unresolved symbol ntohl
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/cloop.o: unresolved symbol blk_dev
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/cloop.o: unresolved symbol fput
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/cloop.o: unresolved symbol fget
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/cloop.o: unresolved symbol kmap_high
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/cloop.o: unresolved symbol irq_stat

This is being compiled on Fedora Core 1

Any ideas?