Re: Help a newbie: "make modules_install" causes depmod errors for EVERY module on EVERY kernel I try?

[Thom Borton]

What's the compiler version you use? Try gcc -v. If it's a 3.xx, then 
the kernel won't compile properly. If I am not mistaken, 2.95.4 is 
recommended.

Yours, Thom

On Friday 17 October 2003 16:55, Peter Romba wrote:
> For some reason I can't compile a kernel anymore.  I recently
> installed gnome 2.4 from source (the only major system change I can
> think of). Now when I try to compile 2.4.21, make modules_install
> gives depmod errors for EVERY module, even dummy.o in the case of
> an out-of-the-box kernel configuration.  This behavior happens on
> every kernel that I've tried.  This is using the typical make
> mrproper, make menuconfig, make dep, make clean, make bzImage, make
> modules, make modules_install sequence of stuff.
>
> In the process of building gnome I had to update ld from an RPM
> (couldn't install it from source, e-mail me if you want details on
> that).
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated :)...  I'm at a loss about
> what to do.
>
> 	--Peter
> 	  promba@xxxxxxxxxx
>
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