[ale] Can't compile RedHat's kernel.

[Michael D. Hirsch]

And the winners are Chris Ricker for the correct solution first and Mike 
Warfield for the full explanation.  After a "make distclean" everything 
appears to be compiling satisfactorally.  It's not done, yet, but it would 
have barfed by now without the "make distclean".

Thanks to everyone who helped me.

Michael

On Monday 06 January 2003 02:39 pm, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > On Monday 06 January 2003 01:33 pm, Chris Ricker wrote:
> > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > > > Anyone compiled a RedHat kernel, lately.  I remember there was a
> > > > time when you needed a special compiler, but I thought those days
> > > > were over.
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to add the usbdnet to my kernel, but when that didn't
> > > > work I've gone back to the RedHat sources and did make dep && make
> > > > bzImage && make modules.  In the middle of make bzImage I get crap
> > > > like:
> > >
> > > you're missing a make clean. do that first, before the make dep, etc
> >
> > Well, that just introduced new errors.  I should say that before my
> > error was actually in make modules, not make bzImage as I stated.
> >
> > When I did a make clean I got these errors with the redhat i686 config
> > file.  I still wondering if I'm missing some devel package that would
> > make all this go away:
>
> That's not a missing devel.
>
> Try
>
> # cd /usr/src/linux-2.4
> # make distclean
> # cp configs/foo .config
> # make oldconfig
> # make dep
> # make bzImage
> # make modules
>
> later,
> chris
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