[ale] make dep problems with 2.3.18 kernels?

[Christopher S. Adams]

it seems that ftape is causing the problem...if you don't absolutely NEED
it, you might want to remove that and see if it works

Chris

----- Original Message -----
 From: Steven A. DuChene at VA Linux Systems <sad at valinux.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Cc: <UGALINUX at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 3:37 PM
Subject: [ale] make dep problems with 2.3.18 kernels?


> I am trying to get any 2.3.18 kernel (with or without various
> ac patches from Alan Cox) to compile on my AMD 233 K6 system.
> The system has 90+Mb of memory and has egcs-1.1.1 on it.
> When I try to do a make dep I get the following sorts of errors
> in various places:
>
> make -C zftape fastdep
> make[8]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/linux-2.3.18/drivers/char/ftape/zftape'
> /usr/src/linux-2.3.18/scripts/mkdep zftape-buffers.c zftape-buffers.h
zftape-ctl.c zftape-ctl.h zftape-eof.c zftape-eof.h zftape-init.c
zftape-init.h zftape-read.c zftape-read.h zftape-rw.c zftape-rw.h
zftape-vtbl.c zftape-vtbl.h zftape-write.c zftape-write.h zftape_syms.c
zftape_syms.h > .depend
> make[8]: *** [fastdep] Error 135
> make[8]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/linux-2.3.18/drivers/char/ftape/zftape'
> make[7]: *** [_sfdep_zftape] Error 2
> make[7]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.3.18/drivers/char/ftape'
> make[6]: *** [fastdep] Error 2
> make[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.3.18/drivers/char/ftape'
> make[5]: *** [_sfdep_ftape] Error 2
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.3.18/drivers/char'
> make[4]: *** [fastdep] Error 2
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.3.18/drivers/char'
> make[3]: *** [_sfdep_char] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.3.18/drivers'
> make[2]: *** [fastdep] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.3.18/drivers'
> make[1]: *** [_sfdep_drivers] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.3.18'
> make: *** [dep-files] Error 2
>
> Is this a known problem? Has anyone seen this before? I was able to
> get 2.3.18ac9 to compile fine on a 2U VA server with a Pentium III
> processor and egcs-1.1.2 but I don't know if the egcs or the processor
> could be the difference.
>
> I have tried various suggestions like refetching the kernel tree or doing
> a "make mrproper" but no change other than I get the "Error 135" problem
> in different spots within the kernel tree when I changed source trees.
> If I keep the same source tree (I first started with a 2.3.16 source tree
> which I then applied the 17, 18 and ac9 patches to, but now I am working
> with a straight 2.3.18 tree with the ac10 patch) it seems to always occur
> in the same spot. The earlier patched up source tree did this in the
> linux/net/sched directory and as you can see from the above I am now
getting
> it in the linux/drivers/char/ftape/zftape directory.
> --
> Steven A. DuChene sad at valinux.com
> Southeast US Systems Engineer
> VA Linux Systems http://www.valinux.com