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Hello,

I get the grsecurity/grsec_hidesym.o error below which is ignored and the kernel builds successfully
although I have not yet tried to boot it.

I was wondering what the error means and if it affects anything?

Building linux-3.0.4-grsec-smp
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function 'is_defined_config':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:169:37: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions
scripts/kconfig/conf --oldconfig Kconfig
#
# configuration written to .config
#
scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig
CHK include/linux/version.h
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function 'is_defined_config':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:169:37: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions
CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CHK include/generated/compile.h
GZIP kernel/config_data.gz
IKCFG kernel/config_data.h
CC kernel/configs.o
LD kernel/built-in.o
make[1]: [grsecurity/grsec_hidesym.o] Error 1 (ignored)
grsec: protected kernel image paths
CC [M] drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.o
LD [M] drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.o

It's most likely from not having a /lib64/modules directory, as only some distributions have it. It's fine to ignore the error, which is why I force the makefile itself to ignore the error.

-Brad

Thanks