[CLUE-Tech] Kernel compilation question

[Mike Miller]

Thanks for the info. What's funny is, I've seen similar problems
compiling the kernel on a PII 266 and Celeron 550, but NOT on a P4
1.6ghz (office machine)

I'll download and get the .19 build and see what happens. I was just
trying to get back to a common level before I modified the kernel to
task. I'll let y'all know what I find.

As an aside, I've fiddled with Linux for years (I was one of CLUE's
webmasters back in the day, believe it or not) but getting back into it
this year, it's made some SERIOUS improvements in usability and GUI
improvements. I'm really impressed with what I've seen thusfar.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us 
> [mailto:clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us] On Behalf Of Adam Bultman
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:01 AM
> To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
> Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] Kernel compilation question
> 
> 
> 
> Hmm.  I've never seen a segfault error before ona kernel 
> compile.  Lots of other types of errors...
> 
> 
> I don't know if you are married to that kernel, but you might 
> want to try 2.4.19. It seems to work rather well for me.
> 
> As for your errors, I usually have to trace the beginning of 
> the error a ways back - say, warnings a few modules back or 
> so that lead to the error manifesting itself (happens to me 
> when I try to include my sound card in the 2.5.x series: the 
> module 'compiles', but with warnings, then a ways later, the 
> compile fails because of those warnings).
> 
> 
> However, since you are having seg fault errors, I'm not 
> entirely sure. But I'd still check for prevoius warnings, and 
> use the most recent kernel that's not a devel kernel.
> 
> 
> Oh: Are you building lots of modules that you aren't using?  
> I build 'minimal' kernels, so I exclude everything that I 
> don't have, nor will I (I'll build in extra sound card 
> chipsets, etc, but not say, SCSI cards or parallel IDE) and 
> that tends to help a lot. If I include things as modules, and 
> I mean stuff I don't need, I tend to error out.  It's wierd. 
> (esp. with SCSI).
> 
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> 
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> >
> > I'm trying to compile in NTFS (readonly) support into RH8 and am 
> > running into a brick wall. 'Make Modules' fails out. In an 
> attempt to 
> > see if I could just compile the 'base' kernel configuration, I ran 
> > 'make oldconfig' which, in theory, lets you build the kernel that 
> > ships with RH8.
> >
> > That fails at 'make modules' too:
> > ==================
> > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include -Wall 
> > -Wstrict-prototypes - Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fngcc -D__KERNEL__
> > -I/home/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -
> > Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common 
> -fomit-frame-pointer
> > -pipe -m
> > preferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE 
> -DMODVERSIONS -include
> > /home/src
> > /linux-2.4.18-14/include/linux/modversions.h  -nostdinc -I
> > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386
> > -redhat-linux/3.2/include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=synclink_cs  -c -o
> > synclink_cs.o syn
> > clink_cs.c
> > /home/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include/linux/skbuff.h: In 
> function `skb_cow':
> > /home/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include/linux/skbuff.h:1082: 
> internal error:
> > Segmentat
> > ion fault
> > Please submit a full bug report,
> > with preprocessed source if appropriate.
> > See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions.
> > make[3]: *** [synclink_cs.o] Error 1
> > make[3]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/src/linux-2.4.18-14/drivers/char/pcmcia'
> > make[2]: *** [_modsubdir_pcmcia] Error 2
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/src/linux-2.4.18-14/drivers/char'
> > make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_char] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/src/linux-2.4.18-14/drivers'
> > make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
> > [root at hauserver linux-2.4]#
> > ===================
> >
> > Bugzilla is decidedly unhelpful. :P
> >
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