Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:30:36 +0000
From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
       Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
       Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 Build Failure at scripts/mkubooting/crc32.c
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On (18/01/08 11:44), Kamalesh Babulal didst pronounce:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> The kernel build fails with following error message
> 
> scripts/mkubootimg/crc32.c:15:18: error: zlib.h: No such file or directory
> scripts/mkubootimg/crc32.c:77: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'crc_table'
> scripts/mkubootimg/crc32.c:153: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'crc32'
> make[2]: *** [scripts/mkubootimg/crc32.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [scripts/mkubootimg] Error 2
> make: *** [scripts] Error 2
> 
> The patch causing this build failure may be git-kbuild.patch.
> 

A dependency on zlib was introduced by that patch. I installed
zlib1g-dev but I see that this is expected to be fixed without internal
dependencies anyway.

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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