Re: cannot get clean 2.4.20 kernel to compile

["Sumit Narayan" <talk2sumit@gmail.com>]

>From the error output 1, it appears that your directory include/asm is
not a link to include/linux. Can you check that?

Otherwise, simply delete the directory include/asm and re-compile the
kernel from start; it should work.

-- Sumit



On 3/31/06, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:
> George P Nychis wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have downloaded the 2.4.20 kernel from ftp.kernel.org, have checked its sign, and no matter what I try I cannot get it to compile.
> >
> > I do a make mrproper, I then do make dep which is fine, but then i try "make bzImage modules modules_install", selecting all the defaults, and get an SMP header error:
> > http://rafb.net/paste/results/QzIq7v86.html
> >
> > I then disable SMP support and get:
> > http://rafb.net/paste/results/muYA9t12.html
> >
> > I even tried using my config from the 2.4.32 kernel which works perfectly fine, and I also get the sched errors.
>
> What gcc version? Some old kernels might not be buildable with newer
> compilers.
>
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