compilation error: 2.4.18-rc2-ac1

compilation error: 2.4.18-rc2-ac1

[Alastair Stevens]

I received the following compilation error when building 2.4.18-rc2-ac1 under 
Red Hat 7.2 on a dead ordinary i686 system (during "make modules") - hope 
this is useful!

I have previously built 2.4.18-pre9-ac3 successfully, with the same config 
(ie only doing "make oldconfig").

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make -C scsi modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/alastair/linux-2.4/drivers/scsi'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/alastair/linux-2.4/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common 
-pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS 
-include /home/alastair/linux-2.4/include/linux/modversions.h  
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=scsi  -c -o scsi.o scsi.c
In file included from 
/home/alastair/linux-2.4/include/linux/modversions.h:144,
                 from scsi.c:1:
/home/alastair/linux-2.4/include/linux/modules/journal.ver:33:22: warning: 
ISO C requires whitespace after the macro name
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/alastair/linux-2.4/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common 
-pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS 
-include /home/alastair/linux-2.4/include/linux/modversions.h  
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=hosts  -c -o hosts.o hosts.c
In file included from 
/home/alastair/linux-2.4/include/linux/modversions.h:144,
                 from hosts.c:1:
/home/alastair/linux-2.4/include/linux/modules/journal.ver:33:22: warning: 
ISO C requires whitespace after the macro name
hosts.c: In function `scsi_register_R62be6ba8':
hosts.c:267: Internal error: Segmentation fault.
Please submit a full bug report.
See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions.
make[2]: *** [hosts.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/alastair/linux-2.4/drivers/scsi'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_scsi] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alastair/linux-2.4/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2

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Regards
Alastair

Re: compilation error: 2.4.18-rc2-ac1

[Alan Cox]

> I received the following compilation error when building 2.4.18-rc2-ac1 under 
> Red Hat 7.2 on a dead ordinary i686 system (during "make modules") - hope 
> this is useful!

Strange.. it looks like something mangled your journal.ver file

cp .config ..
make distclean
cp ../.config .config
make oldconfig dep bzImage modules

and let me know what occured

Also before that take a look at journal.ver see what happened to it.