I didn't get very far...
Sorry for posting here but google shed no light on this
Any constructive comments welcome.
Cheers,
Jon
# make
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h
CC arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:449,
from include/linux/bitops.h:22,
from include/linux/kernel.h:17,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:44,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:5,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:15,
from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:6,
from include/linux/crypto.h:20,
from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c:7,
from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:2:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/arch_hweight.h: In function `__arch_hweight32':
/usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/arch_hweight.h:29: parse error before string constant
make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1
make: *** [prepare0] Error 2
# gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2.2
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 08:19:22PM +0000, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
> I didn't get very far...
>
> Sorry for posting here but google shed no light on this
>
> Any constructive comments welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
> # make
> CHK include/linux/version.h
> CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h
> CC arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s
> In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:449,
> from include/linux/bitops.h:22,
> from include/linux/kernel.h:17,
> from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:44,
> from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:5,
> from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:15,
> from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:6,
> from include/linux/crypto.h:20,
> from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c:7,
> from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:2:
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/arch_hweight.h: In function `__arch_hweight32':
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/arch_hweight.h:29: parse error before string constant
> make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1
> make: *** [prepare0] Error 2
Hmm, that happened in the ALTERNATIVE() macro. Could be a config
problem. Could you send me you .config you used.
>
> # gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 3.2.2
This is also a pretty old gcc. Pretty much all distros are on 4.*
-- Steve