Okay, I'm making progress. I thought I'd report in just in case our friend writing the book wants to follow what I do.

First, I took the newest version as Dr. Smalley suggested and applied his two patches. I also applied the patch from Andrew Morton on LKML to try to fix the problem that has shown up because of the new, more restrictive binutils.

That failed. I believe the problem might be that there are occurences of the problem that are in the lsm patch or the selinux patches as it has to do with module exit code I believe.

My second choice was to backoff to an older binutils and do the ld using that.

  533 tar zxf 2001121010-SELINUX/lsm-selinux-2001121010.tgz   537 cd selinux/
  538 patch -p1 < ../2001121010-SELINUX/util-linux.patch   545 cd ../lsm
  547 patch -p1 < ../2001121010-SELINUX/AndrewMorton-exit.patch

  550 cd ../selinux/module/
  552 make insert
  554 cd ../../lsm
  555 patch -p1 < ../2001121010-SELINUX/module.patch

  558 cp -a ../20011213-collective.config .config   559 make oldconfig
  560 make menuconfig

        Downgrade to binutils_2.11.92.0.7-2_i386.deb

  562 make dep
  564 make bzImage
  565 make modules

Now since I am not building for this machine, I move everything to a target "root" which I'll later tar up and copy over to the test machine:

  571 cp -a System.map ../Selinux/boot/System.map-2.4.16-lsm   572 cp -a arch/i386/boot/bzImage ../Selinux/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.16-lsm   574 make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/usr/src/Selinux/ modules_install

Since selinux doesn't have this feature, I edited the makefile and added it. After I'm done I'd be happy to supply any patchfiles I create in the process.

  577 cd ../selinux/module

        Patch Makefile to have ROOT variable

  587 make ROOT=/usr/src/Selinux/usr/local install

At this point I'm not yet clear whether I can continue on the kernel factory or have to complete the commands in the README over on the target machine. I'm hoping not as it would be terribly awkward if I have to move the source tree across just to finish.

So, I'm on to the next RTFM and RTFC step.

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