From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 07:39:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 07:38:59 -0400 Received: from rundog.dialup.access.net ([166.84.201.138]:6984 "EHLO sephe.rundog.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 07:38:49 -0400 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 07:38:28 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.3 Compile Errors - Power Mac From: Jeff Galloway To: David Woodhouse CC: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <13993.987753438@redhat.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thanks. I'll try your suggestions and check on the version of my compiler and binutils. on 4/20/01 3:57 AM, David Woodhouse at dwmw2@infradead.org wrote: > > > jeff.galloway@rundog.com said: >> However, I don't think that wishing the world would avoid these >> dominant (and very useful) formats is a realistic expectation. It is >> certainly not "common sense" to assume as such. > > Of course it's not a realistic expectation. There are times when it's a pain > to have to be safe - people will always break the rules when they're in a > hurry and the document to be sent is already in an unsafe format. But taking > plain text with absolutely no formatting, in fact text which is > _degenerated_ by word wrapping &c, and gratuitously putting it in a Word > document is just _so_ unnecessary that I assumed it had to be a troll. > > >> fork.c: In function ?copy_mm: > > Given what this output's been through - I'll assume it's corrupted in > transit, shall I? > > The kind of error you're seeing is often caused by a mismatch between > compiler and kernel. As Alan suggests, you should make sure you're using a > PPC-specific tree because it's not up to date in the stock 2.4.3. And make > sure you're using the recommended versions of compiler and binutils. Other > than that, I'm afraid I don't know. > > -- > dwmw2 > ---------------------------- Jeff Galloway New York jeff.galloway@rundog.com