[Nottingham] Trouble compiling kernel on suse

[Graham Dicker]

Can anyone give me some pointers on why I am getting these errors? I am trying 
to compile the kernel on a SUSE 11.1 system

TIA

Graham

grahampc:/usr/src/linux # make menuconfig
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/docproc
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/hash
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/inputbox.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/textbox.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/yesno.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/mconf
scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/x86/Kconfig
#
# using defaults found in /boot/config-2.6.27.42-0.1-pae
#
#
# configuration written to .config
#

*** End of Linux kernel configuration.
*** Execute 'make' to build the kernel or try 'make help'.

grahampc:/usr/src/linux # make
  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  UPD     include/linux/version.h
  CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
  UPD     include/linux/utsrelease.h
  SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
  CC      kernel/bounds.s
In file included from include/linux/types.h:6,
                 from include/linux/page-flags.h:8,
                 from kernel/bounds.c:9:
include/asm/types.h:25: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or 
‘__attribute__’ before ‘dma64_addr_t’
include/asm/types.h:28: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or 
‘__attribute__’ before ‘dma_addr_t’
In file included from include/linux/page-flags.h:8,
                 from kernel/bounds.c:9:
include/linux/types.h:113: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or 
‘__attribute__’ before ‘sector_t’
include/linux/types.h:122: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or 
‘__attribute__’ before ‘blkcnt_t’
make[1]: *** [kernel/bounds.s] Error 1
make: *** [prepare0] Error 2

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