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[philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx]

>> The PowerPC R5 kernel does not export the following 
>> symbols, necessary for the kernel version of the net stack
>> to build. 
>
> I'm not usually one to reply to my own e-mails, but I had to vent my
> rage at noticing that the kernel *has* these functions, just Be somehow
> forgot to add them to the export table(!).

Argh!
It's really bad luck... and weird?
BeOS PPC don't have any busses-controlers kernel modules too?

As the select() hack guy here, I'm not opposed to an ugly *hack* to add  
these 3 functions for PPC support, but I'm quite a hacky-guy ;-)

>> (It also does not seem possible to build a 
>> userland version now. Am I missing something?)

As David seem to be in the middle of changes to add transparents usage of 
modules under both user and kernel-land, I'll bet that current CVS userland 
build may be broken ATM.
But I can't confirm right now for Intel side, as I don't have a BeOS system 
there (at work)...

> It sure looks like you can't build a userland stack atm. For instance,
> core.o is automatically included and -nostart is always used. Is this
> true?

core.o is included in user-land build system, yes. In kernel-land, 
he's the main part of the "core" kernel module, but under userland net_server, 
it's simply one of the C module...

For -nostart option, sorry, I dunno what it does... or not. 
Could you give us some hint here?
Remember, many of us never build for PPC platform, myself I've done it 
only once, for PDF Writer driver.

-Philippe, who still don't have find time to finish his Y3ATSSUR5 code 
(Yet Again Another Attempt To Support Select Under R5).