Re: [expert] Kernel Compile

[Tom Berkley]

Barry Have you looked at http://www.kernelnote.org to see the minimal requirements to compile the 2.2.13 kernel and checked everything on your system against the list. I would expect that from a new install you should be able to compile but ??? Also have you installed all of the 6.1 updates yet. If not it would be a good idea to do that first. I've had weird problems trying to compile some kernel versions but when I checked the requirements and updated my modules, the compilation worked. Tom   Barry Winch wrote: Hi, I have recently installed Linux Mandrake 6.1 on a K6-2 400Mhz machine, 64Mb Mem and 8Gb Hard drive. All appears to be working well, it is on a LAN, X works etc. The next thing I need to do is to recompile the kernel to put in the HAM RADIO AX25 options. The current kernel is the stock 2.2.13 -4mdk.Initially I planned to use xconfig to set up the configuration but "make xconfig" gave the following error: rm -f include/asm( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tkmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts'gcc -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -c -o tkparse.o tkparse.ccc1: Invalid option 'preferred-stack-boundary=2'make[1]: *** [tkparse.o] Error 1make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts'make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 I could overcome the error and get xconfig to compile and run if I removed  the '-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2' diective from the HOSTCFLAGS portion of the Makefile. Anyway just to be safe I did a make config. This went OK. next make dep, then make clean then a make. This led to the following error: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -c -o init/main.o init/main.ccc1: Invalid option 'preferred-stack-boundary=2'make[1]: *** [init/main.o] Error 1 This time I removed  the '-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2' diective from the HOSTCFLAGS portion of the Makefile in the arch/i386 directory, and the compile went a little further, but I then got a number of other messages similar to: gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11make[3]: *** [ide.o] Error 1make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2make[1]: *** [_subdir_block] Error 2make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2[root@mandrake linux-2.2.13]#cpp: output pipe has been closed{standard input}: Assembler messages:{standard input}: 4588: Warning end of file not at end of  a line; new line inserted{standard input}: 5627: Error: unbalanced parentesis in second operand. These message seem to change from compile to compile, but they are all along the same line. Any ideas, is the related to my having removed the '-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2'  directives?How do I get this to compile with those directories in. As I said earlier this is a clean Mandrake 6.1 install, nothing else has been "played" with yet.The gcc version is pgcc-2.1.66 19990314. Any help will be much appreciated Barry