Kernel compile problems

[Robert Dege]

> 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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