Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 21:39:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 21:39:10 -0500 Received: from netsrvr.ami.com.au ([203.55.31.38]:18732 "EHLO netsrvr.ami.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 21:38:55 -0500 Message-Id: <200012100208.eBA28GZ17065@emu.os2.ami.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.0-test11 does not build: In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Dec 2000 18:33:33 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:08:22 +0800 From: John Summerfield Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org mharris@opensourceadvocate.org said: > Try doing a "make distclean" or "make mrproper" first. Are you using > kgcc? Neither works. I'm using gcc 2.95-3 on RHL 6.2 In desperation, I removed the source tree and started afresh from test1. These are the commands I used: [summer@possum src]$ cat reinstall #!/bin/bash set -ex cd /usr/src rm -rf linux tar Ixf /u03/kernels/patches/linux-2.4.0-test1.tar.bz2 dir -1rt `find /u03/kernels/patches/ -name patch-2.4.0-t\*.gz -newer /u03/kernels/patches/patch-2.4.0-test1.gz` | xargs --max-lines=1 gzip -dc | patch -p0 find linux -name \*.rej cd linux make mrproper cp /u03/kernels/configs/possum-2.4.0-test11.config .config make dep bzImage modules and it still did not build. In a hunch, i tried this: set -ex cd /usr/src rm -rf linux tar Ixf /u03/kernels/patches/linux-2.4.0-test1.tar.bz2 dir -1rt `find /u03/kernels/patches/ -name patch-2.4.0-t\*.gz -newer /u03/kernels/patches/patch-2.4.0-test1.gz` | xargs --max-lines=1 gzip -dc | patch -p0 find linux -name \*.rej cd linux make mrproper cp /u03/kernels/configs/possum-2.4.0-test11.config .config make oldconfig dep bzImage modules and the oldconfig resulting in me bing asked three questions (and not those new in test11). The result builds. It seems to me that some of the various "make *config" options have the ability to create defective configurations in some circumstances. I'm off to enjoy my new kernel now;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/