error building Linus tree

From: Or Gerlitz
Date: Sun Mar 29 2009 - 16:53:42 EST


Building Linus tree with gcc 4.1.1 on an x86_64 system based on RHEL 5
I run into the following error:

CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
CC kernel/bounds.s
In file included from include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:86,
from include/linux/compiler.h:40,
from include/linux/stddef.h:4,
from include/linux/posix_types.h:4,
from include/linux/types.h:14,
from include/linux/page-flags.h:8,
from kernel/bounds.c:9:
include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h:8:4: error: #error Your version of gcc miscompiles the __weak directive
make[1]: *** [kernel/bounds.s] Error 1
make: *** [prepare0] Error 2

This is my gcc information, attached is the .config I use

Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions
--enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --enable-plugin
--with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre --with-cpu=generic --host=x86_64-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)

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