freeswan ipsec module won't insert into latest rawhide kernel - missing symbols?

[Peter Bowen]

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 03:34, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> The Makefile in kernel-source adds "custom" to the kernel version which
> changes the symbol mangling. If you want to build a module against the
> installed kernel-source, you can e.g. grep for EXTRAVERSION in the
> Makefile and use "make EXTRAVERSION=<grepped EXTRAVERSION without
> "custom"> ..." to build. Of course you have to do the usual:
> 
> - make mrproper
> - copy of the matching config file from configs/ to .config
> - make dep
> 
> beforehand.

Of course it is important to note that 99% of kernel modules will
compile against an installed kernel source without needing to make these
changes.  The FreeSWAN makefile is somewhat broken in that it tries to
use the info in the kernel makefile for external builds.

Thanks.
Peter