Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Andrea Glorioso
Chris == Chris L Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris Hi Stefan, Chris Unfortunately, no, I'm still having trouble. :( I might Chris wind up installing a fresh potato system on another Chris partition to see if it works in potato or not. If not, I Chris guess I should

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Chris L. Mason
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:55:12AM +0100, Andrea Glorioso wrote: Just did it on a Potato box a week ago, no problems whatsoever. Thought you might wish to know. Okay, the problem seems to be with how mkdep is being compiled. I managed to get the kernel to compile by copying the mkdep.c

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Petr Cech
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:08:22AM -0500 , Chris L. Mason wrote: Anyway, this might help others who need to compile old kernels, and hopefully the problem will be fixed by gcc 2.95.3 final. 2.0.38 will probably not compile with gcc 2.7.2.3 very well. You might want to try gcc272

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Chris L. Mason
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:22:22PM +0100, Petr Cech wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:08:22AM -0500 , Chris L. Mason wrote: Anyway, this might help others who need to compile old kernels, and hopefully the problem will be fixed by gcc 2.95.3 final. 2.0.38 will probably not compile with gcc

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Petr Cech
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:28:25AM -0500 , Chris L. Mason wrote: Right, good point. In fact I did use gcc272 for the actual compile. But neither gcc272 or gcc 2.95.3 compiled mkdep.c properly. Hmm, I wonder if hmm. I wonder how could we compile it in the first place, given there was no other

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:33:26PM +0100, Petr Cech wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:28:25AM -0500 , Chris L. Mason wrote: Right, good point. In fact I did use gcc272 for the actual compile. But neither gcc272 or gcc 2.95.3 compiled mkdep.c properly. Hmm, I wonder if hmm. I wonder how

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:33:26PM +0100, Petr Cech wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:28:25AM -0500 , Chris L. Mason wrote: Right, good point. In fact I did use gcc272 for the actual compile. But neither gcc272 or gcc 2.95.3 compiled

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Petr Cech
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:54:37AM -0600 , Steve Langasek wrote: While a 2.0 kernel may not /run/ with a given glibc, I'm puzzled as to how kernel doesn't care what you have under it. and newer glibc's should work OK even with an older one. Petr Cech -- Debian

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-07 Thread Chris L. Mason
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:08:17PM +0100, Stefan Frank wrote: Hi Chris, incidentally i tried to do the same yesterday. I got the same error message as you, but didn't bother to try to fix it. Maybe you need an older version of make? If you manage to get this kernel working, would you

Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-06 Thread Chris L. Mason
Hi, I am running the latest sid and I'm trying to compile a custom 2.0.38 kernel for use with smalllinux on an ancient PS/2 386 with 4 megs of RAM. (The default won't do because it doesn't have support for ESDI drives.) Anyway, I'm running into a problem. I can't seem to run a make or even