Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932176AbWCaR7c (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:59:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932180AbWCaR7c (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:59:32 -0500 Received: from smtp.andrew.cmu.edu ([128.2.10.82]:63125 "EHLO smtp.andrew.cmu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932176AbWCaR7b (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:59:31 -0500 Message-ID: <51443.128.237.233.65.1143827969.squirrel@128.237.233.65> In-Reply-To: <1458d9610603301725r127cc73djb125ae56c992cb99@mail.gmail.com> References: <5W8lY-1wF-29@gated-at.bofh.it> <442C81BC.7030605@shaw.ca> <1458d9610603301725r127cc73djb125ae56c992cb99@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:59:29 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: cannot get clean 2.4.20 kernel to compile From: "George P Nychis" To: "Sumit Narayan" Cc: "Robert Hancock" , "linux-kernel" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 [CVS] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2070 Lines: 58 Actually that helped, i had no linux symlink, after creating it, i got alot further into the build, however now i get: In file included from ide-cd.c:318: ide-cd.h:440: error: long, short, signed or unsigned used invalidly for `slot_tablelen' make[3]: *** [ide-cd.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/drivers/ide' Any more ideas? :) > From the error output 1, it appears that your directory include/asm is not > a link to include/linux. Can you check that? > > Otherwise, simply delete the directory include/asm and re-compile the > kernel from start; it should work. > > -- Sumit > > > > On 3/31/06, Robert Hancock wrote: >> George P Nychis wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have downloaded the 2.4.20 kernel from ftp.kernel.org, have checked >>> its sign, and no matter what I try I cannot get it to compile. >>> >>> I do a make mrproper, I then do make dep which is fine, but then i >>> try "make bzImage modules modules_install", selecting all the >>> defaults, and get an SMP header error: >>> http://rafb.net/paste/results/QzIq7v86.html >>> >>> I then disable SMP support and get: >>> http://rafb.net/paste/results/muYA9t12.html >>> >>> I even tried using my config from the 2.4.32 kernel which works >>> perfectly fine, and I also get the sched errors. >> >> What gcc version? Some old kernels might not be buildable with newer >> compilers. >> >> -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" >> from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ >> >> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe >> linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More >> majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please >> read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >> > > -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/