[WBEL-users] Kernel compile woes

[Karl-König Königsson]

I was not aware of the "make oldconfig" option; it turned out to be 
cruicial in this matter. I have learned something new which is good in 
itself.

What is also good is that things now work as expected and I can fiddle 
with the kernel to all my little hearts content. Happy happy joy joy!

Thank you, all who answered on and off list!


	Karl-Koenig Koenigsson


Karl-König Königsson wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This is most peculiar... I have done this:
> 
>   cp /boot/config-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL /usr/src/linux/.config
>   cd /usr/src/linux
>   make dep && make clean bzImage
> 
> This proceeds smoothly until this point:
> 
>   kallsyms pass 1
>   ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL/arch/i386/vmlinux....
> 
> where I get a million undefined referenses to stuff like 
> "kernel_flag_cacheline", "cpu_date" and "smp_num_cpus" and make croaks 
> with:
> 
>   make[1]: *** [kallsyms] Error 1
>   make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL'
>   make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2
> 
> I'm stumped, to say the least, and don't know really where to start. I, 
> naively as it seems, thought that the kernel would compile out of the 
> box as it has on other distributions I have used, so I guess I must have 
> missed something.
> 
> Please, what am I doing wrong?
> 
> 
> Cheers!
> 
>     Karl-Koenig Koenigsson
> 

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Karl-Koenig Koenigsson, CM Pablo
Black holes are where god divided by 0.