Kernel compile problems

[Robert F. Stockdale IV]

Did you read the changes file in the Document directory? You might need
to upgrade something, such as binutils or make. Changes lets you know
the exact minimum of everything you need to compile the kernel. It will
be under:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/Documentation/Changes

Hope this helps.
Bob


On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 13:09, Robert Dege wrote:
> 
> > Can you post the exact commands you fed it, and the resulting problems please?
> > I'm interested as to why your build failed,  also, do a "du -s " in /usr/src
> > linux.  (total disk space usage for that dir tree)
> 
> # make dep ; make clean ; make bzImage ; make modules ; \
>   make modules_install ; make install
> 
> Once I started getting the errors, I broke up the make calls individually
> to see if any of them prematurely ended.  But as I said, no obvious kernel
> errors appears until depmod was called from modules_install.
> 
> disk space is around 50%.  Even after the problems I downloaded 2.4.20
> into usr/src & unpacked it.  Then tried to compile that as well, with the
> same end results. (aka - at least 4 GB free)
> 
> 
> > Also some info on your distro, what version, and where did you get your kernel
> > source (from your distro?, or from kernel.org, or elsewhere?)
> 
> RedHat 7.3, I got my kernel from ftp.kernel.org.  It was a vanilla build
> with no additional patches applied after unpacking the tar.
> 
> > One last thing,  how long did it take from start to the errors in time?  IF it
> > went REALLY fast (under 5 minutes), and you don't have something faster than
> > 1.5Ghz, then something is wrong (incomplete tree?)
> 
> It's on a 500MHz system with 256MB RAM.  I believe make bzImage took about
> 40 minutes to complete, so I don't think make was prematurely ending.
> 
> 
> Dege
> 
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