My first attempt to build 2.5.2

[Peter Samuelson]

[Chris Garrigues <cwg-samba-ntdom at DeepEddy.Com>]
> > /tmp/ccjBUaf2.o(.text+0x24): undefined reference to `sys_fork'
> > /tmp/ccjBUaf2.o(.text+0x6d): undefined reference to `sys_getpid'
> > /tmp/ccjBUaf2.o(.text+0xd8): undefined reference to `sys_getpid'

That looks like a mangled merge from HEAD.  (Tridge recently added
those functions.)

> I got past this point by simply removing the 'sys_'.  Was that the
> right thing to do?

Yes, if my theory is correct.

> Now it configures, but whines about not having shared memory.  I
> suspect that's a similar problem.

You aren't by any chance running Linux 2.3.x, are you?  If so, don't
forget to mount the shm filesystem.  (See Documentation/Changes.)

Peter