Re: Problems building 2.6.26 and 2.6.27-rc1

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:21:11PM +0000, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote:
> Sam wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:07:28PM +0000, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote:
> > > Roland wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >  > I'm getting the following error when trying to build either
> > > > 2.6.26 or  > 2.6.27-rc1:
> > > >  >
> > > >  > arch/x86/kernel/head64.c: In function 'x86_64_start_kernel':
> > > >  > arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:88: error: size of array
> > 'type name' is
> > > > negative
> > > >
> > > > It looks like you're hitting
> > > >
> > > >         BUILD_BUG_ON(!(MODULES_VADDR > __START_KERNEL));
> > > >
> > > > No idea why you're hitting that though.  What's your .config and
> > > > compiler?
> > > >
> > > I think maybe I've figured out what's breaking my build. If
> > use "make -jN" I hit the error. I usually set N to the number
> > of processors (real and HT). So if /proc/cpuinfo display info
> > about 4 processors I use -j4, etc. If I don't specify the
> > number of jobs to run simultaneously the build completes with
> > just the usual warnings.
> > >
> > > Any experts on parallelism out there?
> >
> > Can you post the output of a make -j4 V=1 run that fials and
> > one that succeeds.
> > Then we can maybe spot something.
> >
> >         Sam
> Sure. Not to be stupid, but do you want the entire output from the builds or just what would go to stderr?

Entire output please.

	Sam
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