From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753373AbYHRUz0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:55:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751477AbYHRUzO (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:55:14 -0400 Received: from smtpout3.tre.se ([80.251.192.228]:49869 "EHLO smtpout3.tre.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750926AbYHRUzM (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:55:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:32:53 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Larry Finger Cc: LKML Subject: Re: Regression in 2.6.27-rc2 when cross-building the kernel Message-ID: <20080818193253.GA30856@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <48A63D98.3070900@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48A63D98.3070900@lwfinger.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 09:38:16PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > One of my i386 systems used just for testing can take up to 18 hours > to build a new kernel with about 200 modules. When performing a > bisection, this gets rather tedious. As a result, I moved the kernel > sources to an NFS volume, do the majority of the work as a cross-build > on my x86_64 computer, and only switch to the slow machine to install > the kernel and modules. Somewhere between 2.6.27-rc1 and -rc2, the > module installation broke because the build leaves > scripts/basic/fixdep as a 64-bit program that will not run on the > 32-bit system. Once I get to the i386 machine, I delete the two > programs from scripts/basic/, manually rebuild them with a 'make > scripts/basic/' and then do the final 'make modules_install install'. Can you try do do a "make V=1 modules_install install" and post the output up to and including the first call to fixdep. Neither of these targets should use fixdep and I assume it is down in firmware/ but lets see. Thanks, Sam