Re: Problems compiling kernel greater than 2.4.7

[Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net>]

On Tuesday, 12. March 2002 03:35, DaZZa wrote:
>
> I'm attempting to compile a new kernel. 2.4.14 by preference, but this
> problem also exists with every version I've tried beyond 2.4.7.
>
> My box is running SuSE 7.2 Professional, pretty much standard - I haven't
> applied any updates from SuSE because I can't find any which seem relavent
> to my problem.

We're facing 8.0 now, the successor of 7.3...

> On installing a clean copy of the kernel source tree for ANY version after
> 2.4.7, I perform the following
>
> cd /usr/src

rm linux

> ln -s linux-2.4.14 linux
> cd linux
> make mrproper
> make menuconfig

[strange lxdialog problem]

> Can anyone shed some light on why this has become a problem _only_ since
> kernel version 2.4.7? Can anyone suggest some way I can make the compile
> work?
>
> Any assistance appreciated - I will try anything suggested along the way
> by anyone.
>
> Again, my apologies if this has gone to the wrong place.
>
> Thanks for any help received.
>
> DaZZa
>

Using SuSE since ages (4.3), I didn't came across this one...

Have a look in /usr/include/linux. They put some "standard" linux include
there :(. I've allways linked it to: 

# l -d /usr/include/linux
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           26 10. Mär 15:34 /usr/include/linux 
-> ../src/linux/include/linux

strace is a pretty cool tool for this problem domain, btw ;)

Cheers,
  Hans-Peter