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.


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