Hi all, I noticed that a few months back, there was a problem installing a modular kernel (2.6.14.3-grsec) with uClibc (0.9.28). I don't know if this is still a problem with 2.6.14.6 or whatever. I did, however, figure out where the bug was: it wasn't in uClibc, it wasn't the in kernel (directly), and it wasn't even a typo in the HLFS book.
This bug was located in... the `make' program itself! The make program (v. 3.80) has a buffer-related bug in expand.c. A very long string in an eval command in a Makefile would cause an error, whereby make thinks it cannot allocate enough memory. As kernel makefiles are wont to be extra-complicated (but usually not buggy), there there was one Makefile in this specific kernel (2.6.14.3) configured with this specific C library (0.9.28), which controlled modules_install, which also broke make. (grammar?) As it turns out, this bug has already been submitted to the people over at make, and there are patches already available. Also the bug-fix has been incorporated into the the alpha branch for make. I don't even know if this applies, since the 2.6.14 tree has progressed from .3 to .7 (which, AFAIK, still works with the grsecurity patch). Take care, Osor -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
