Compile failure with 2.5.41 in serial/core.o

RH7.3 : gcc-2.96-112 : Athlon XP

Here's the error when doing "make modules" from a clean build. The "make bzImage" works fine:

gcc -Wp,-MD,drivers/serial/.core.o.d -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -Iarch/i386/mach-generic -nostdinc -iwithprefix include
-DMODULE -include include/linux/modversions.h -DKBUILD_BASENAME=core
-c -o drivers/serial/core.o drivers/serial/core.c drivers/serial/core.c:2456: parse error before this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' drivers/serial/core.c:2456: warning: type defaults to int' in declaration of `this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' drivers/serial/core.c:2456: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
drivers/serial/core.c:2457: parse error before this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' drivers/serial/core.c:2457: warning: type defaults to int' in declaration of `this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' drivers/serial/core.c:2457: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
drivers/serial/core.c:2458: parse error before this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' drivers/serial/core.c:2458: warning: type defaults to int' in declaration of `this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' drivers/serial/core.c:2458: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
drivers/serial/core.c:2459: parse error before this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' drivers/serial/core.c:2459: warning: type defaults to int' in declaration of `this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' drivers/serial/core.c:2459: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
drivers/serial/core.c:2460: parse error before this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' drivers/serial/core.c:2460: warning: type defaults to int' in declaration of `this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' drivers/serial/core.c:2460: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
drivers/serial/core.c:2461: parse error before this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' drivers/serial/core.c:2461: warning: type defaults to int' in declaration of `this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' drivers/serial/core.c:2461: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
drivers/serial/core.c:2462: parse error before this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' drivers/serial/core.c:2462: warning: type defaults to int' in declaration of `this_object_must_be_defined_as_export_objs_in_the_Makefile' drivers/serial/core.c:2462: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
make[2]: *** [drivers/serial/core.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [drivers/serial] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2

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Hmmh, I cannot reproduce this, nor do I see how this would happen - Does your drivers/serial/Makefile have the line

export-objs := core.o 8250.o suncore.o

?

If you can reproduce this, could you mail me your .config?

--Kai