Troubleshooting

I'm using the kernel source supplied by Caldera (or Red Hat, and so forth), but building the FreeS/WAN package fails.

The Caldera kernel sources are already modified from the original pristine sources. Depending on what Caldera has modified, it might not be possible to use their kernel sources. If you find that building the FreeS/WAN package fails, try getting the sources from ftp.kernel.org/pub/ linux/kernel/v2.4 and compiling from that.

The FreeS/WAN package seems to be building okay, but I'm getting what looks like lots of pointer errors. Are these normal?

Yes, the initial portion of the build will contain what look like lots of errors. All messages are captured to kbuild.out. If you have any true errors, the build will stop ...

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