2.5.31 build failure

2.5.31 build failure

[Daniel I. Applebaum]

I get the following error when trying to build 2.5.31:
gcc -Wp,-MD,./.entry.o.d -D__ASSEMBLY__ -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.5.31/include -nostdinc -iwithprefix include  -traditional  -c -o entry.o entry.S
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/tradcpp0: Usage: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/tradcpp0 [switches] input output
make[2]: *** [entry.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.31/arch/i386/kernel'
make[1]: *** [arch/i386/kernel] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.31'
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

Dan.

Re: 2.5.31 build failure

[Kai Germaschewski]

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Daniel I. Applebaum wrote:

> I get the following error when trying to build 2.5.31:
> gcc -Wp,-MD,./.entry.o.d -D__ASSEMBLY__ -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.5.31/include -nostdinc -iwithprefix include  -traditional  -c -o entry.o entry.S
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/tradcpp0: Usage: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/tradcpp0 [switches] input output
> make[2]: *** [entry.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.31/arch/i386/kernel'
> make[1]: *** [arch/i386/kernel] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.31'
> make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

The best explanation I have for this is a buggy compiler - I think I've 
seen one report like this before. What exact version are you using?

gcc -v 
rpm -qa | grep gcc

--Kai

Re: 2.5.31 build failure

[Daniel I. Applebaum]

Here's the output that Kai asked for:

% gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0)
% rpm -qa | grep gcc
gcc-c++-2.96-54
kgcc-1.1.2-40
gcc-2.96-54
gcc-g77-2.96-54

Do I really need to change to 2.95.3?

Dan.

Re: 2.5.31 build failure

[Kai Germaschewski]

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Daniel I. Applebaum wrote:

> % gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
> gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0)
> % rpm -qa | grep gcc
> gcc-c++-2.96-54
> kgcc-1.1.2-40
> gcc-2.96-54
> gcc-g77-2.96-54
> 
> Do I really need to change to 2.95.3?

No, but you should try to update to the latest 2.96 version (initial 
versions are known to be buggy, not sure if yours is any of those, 
though). The latest for Redhat 7.0 seem to be

ncftp ...updates/7.0/en/os/i386 > ls gcc*
gcc-2.96-85.i386.rpm                   gcc-g77-2.96-85.i386.rpm
gcc-c++-2.96-85.i386.rpm               gcc-java-2.96-85.i386.rpm
gcc-chill-2.96-85.i386.rpm             gcc-objc-2.96-85.i386.rpm

--Kai

Re: 2.5.31 build failure

[Thunder from the hill]

Hi,

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> gcc -v 
> rpm -qa | grep gcc

Can be very confusing:

[thunder@bluemoon ~] (0) gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.1.1/specs
Configured with: ./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --with-elf --enable-checking=misc,tree,gc,gcac --enable-c-mbchar --enable-threads --enable-shared --with-gc=page
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.1.1
[thunder@bluemoon ~] (0) rpm -qa | grep "gcc"
gcc-cpp-2.96-0.76mdk
gcc-c++-2.96-0.76mdk
gcc-java-2.96-0.76mdk
gcc-g77-2.96-0.76mdk
libgcc3.0-3.0.4-2mdk
gcc-2.96-0.76mdk
gcc-objc-2.96-0.76mdk
[thunder@bluemoon ~] (0) 

See?

			Thunder
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