[Gllug] First attempt at building a kernel

[Ted Bell]

At the risk of showing my ignorance, I thought 2.4.8 was the latest stable 
kernel. I will check out 2.4.20, I had also been led to believe from the 
readme files that mkproper came after make bzimage/disk!

Ted
On Thursday 12 June 2003 11:44 pm, Pete Black ote:
> A bug in a production linux  kernel that prevents it from even compiling?
>
> I'm not sure I would agree with this assessment, especially if it is a
> 'vanilla' kernel package from kernel.org
>
> 2.4.8 is some way behind the curve, but I have certainly compiled it
> without a problem. It would probably be better to use 2.4.20 (mostly for
> security reasons) but I would expect any vanilla 2.4 kernel to compile
> cleanly.
>
> It is quite likely you simply need to back up your kernel configuration,
> and run 'make mrproper', which will clean out any remnants from previous
> compilations.
>
> Sometimes the package maintainers ship these remnants in the kernel source
> package by mistake, so 'make mrproper' is a good idea before you start
> configuring any new kernel.
>
> you should then restore your config, do your make dep;make clean;make
> bzImage etc.
>
> -Pete
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:00:47PM +0100, Alistair Mann wrote:
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> > Thus spaketh Ted Bell on Thursday 12 June 2003 8:48 pm:
> > > Hope this is the right place to post this, if not please redirect me.
> > >
> > > I am new to Linux, having got over numerous teething problems with
> > > things like CD writers Zip drives and finally printers, I thought I
> > > would tackle the kernel how to.
> > >
> > > I have not included the whole report produced during make bzdisk, I
> > > don't know how to and it would be a tad long. The extract below is the
> > > final few lines.
> > >
> > > devlist.h:6999: __devices_ffff causes a section type conflict
> > > make[3]: *** [names.o] Error 1
> > > make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/pci'
> > > make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/pci'
> > > make[1]: *** [_subdir_pci] Error 2
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers'
> > > make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
> > >
> > > Unfortunatly it tells me zip. I imagine I have added something in the
> > > config that should not be there but this is a little beyond my
> > > rudimentary skills.
> > >
> > > Any friendly words of advice or dirtection would be much appriciated. I
> > > am in danger of 'buying a book'.
> > >
> > > I am currently running Slackware and I downloaded kernel v 2.4.8
> >
> > 2.4.8 is someway behind the most recent. Do you have a particular need
> > for it?
> >
> > I believe what you are seeing is a bug in the kernel source[1]; could you
> > try a later version?
> > - --
> > Alistair
> >
> >
> > [1] googling on "session type conflcts"
> > Today is Pungenday, the 17th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3169
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