Kernel compilation : make modules fails

Kernel compilation : make modules fails

[Satheesh Kumar]

Hi,

I installed a fresh RedHat 9.0 distribution on my
system. I'm trying to compile kernel with a new
driver. The compilation steps I'm following are as
below:
* make oldconfig
* make dep
* make bzImage
* make modules
* make modules_install

Till 'make bzImage' everything succeeds. However,
'make modules' fails.

Can someone help me out with this? Are there any known
problems and solutions wit RH9.0 distribution of the
kernel sources? The kernel version is 2.4.20.

Thanks in advance!!

-Satheesh

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Re: Kernel compilation : make modules fails

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Satheesh Kumar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I installed a fresh RedHat 9.0 distribution on my
> system. I'm trying to compile kernel with a new
> driver. The compilation steps I'm following are as
> below:
> * make oldconfig
> * make dep
> * make bzImage
> * make modules
> * make modules_install
>
> Till 'make bzImage' everything succeeds. However,
> 'make modules' fails.
>
> Can someone help me out with this? Are there any known
> problems and solutions wit RH9.0 distribution of the
> kernel sources? The kernel version is 2.4.20.
>

Some kind of hint on how `make modules` fails? Clearly both
2.4.20 and the RH9 distribution works okay for others.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.

Re: Kernel compilation : make modules fails

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Satheesh Kumar wrote:

> I've attached the compilation failure messages
> with this mail.
>
> Appreciate your help.
>
> -Satheesh


`make modules` should have started out as:


make -C  kernel CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe  -DMODULE" MAKING_MODULES=1 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/kernel'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/kernel'
make -C  drivers CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe  -DMODULE" MAKING_MODULES=1 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/drivers'
make -C block modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/drivers/block'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe  -DMODULE  -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=loop  -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c loop.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe  -DMODULE  -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=xd  -c -o xd.o xd.ca



Instead it started out as:


make -r -f tmp_include_depends all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8'
make[1]: Circular /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/asm/smplock.h <- /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/linux/interrupt.h dependency dropped.
make[1]: Circular /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_conntrack.h <- /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_conntrack_helper.h dependency dropped.
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8'
make -C  kernel CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/linux/modversions.h" MAKING_MODULES=1 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/kernel'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/kernel'
make -C  drivers CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/linux/modversions.h" MAKING_MODULES=1 modules



So, it seems that you started with an 'unclean' distribution.
Do:
cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8 # Go there
cp .config /tmp		# Save configuration
make distclean		# Really clean it up
cp /tmp/.config .	# Get configuration back
make oldconfig		# Make configuration
make dep		# Set dependencies
make bzImage		# etc.
make modules


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.