Re: compile error with 2.6.7-rc3-mm1

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 08:42:07PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Try doing the make with V=1
> 
>   make V=1 drivers/perfctr/x86.o
> 
> Determine the exact compilation line (perhaps a couple hundred chars
> long) that issues the error, then manually repeat that line manually
> (cut+paste), adding the option "-save-temps".
> 
> This will look something similar to the following, which I generated for
> a different file, different compilation environment (I added the wrapping
> and backslashes for display purposes here):
> 
>     gcc -save-temps -Wp,-MD,kernel/.cpuset.o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefix \
>     include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude  -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
>     -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -msoft-float \
>     -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  -march=pentium4 -mregparm=3 \
>     -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer \ 
>     -DKBUILD_BASENAME=cpuset -DKBUILD_MODNAME=cpuset -c -o kernel/cpuset.o \
>     kernel/cpuset.c
> 
> Then look at the ./x86.i file (in top directory), which is the
> preprocessor output, to see if the (cpumask_t) cast is present.

Much simpler method is to just use:

	make drivers/perfctr/x86.i

Same goes for .lst (mixed assembly and c)
and for .s (pure assembler)

	Sam