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Compiling problem with certain options

DISCUSSION Stoian Atanasov 3 participants 4 messages Jul 27, 2003

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Hello, Im trying to compile a kernel with only a fiew options enabled, but get very obscure errors! Can any one suggest sorce of information on this subject, or how to proceed further!

Thanks in advance!

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Quoted 3 lines · Stoian Atanasov

Hello, Im trying to compile a kernel with only a fiew options enabled, but get very obscure errors! Can any one suggest sorce of information on this subject, or how to proceed further!

It may well be something simple, in which posting the errors you're getting, as well as your .config, would be a solid first step.

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Thank you very much for your answer mr Neakum,

Funny, but now i did the menuconfig again and clear, dep, bzImage, modules and it is ok, maybe i missed removing some module before as i want to compile a quite light kernel.
Many times i wanted to compile a kernel with just a fiew options and get some errors, and when want to kompile with lot of options it's ok. I guess there are some dependency problems, which are not handled properly by make dep? And i heard somewhere that it is a common error.

Is there a dedicated site, forum about this problem?

Thanks again!

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Quoted 4 lines · Stoian Atanasov

Funny, but now i did the menuconfig again and clear, dep, bzImage, modules and it is ok, maybe i missed removing some module before as i want to compile a quite light kernel.

make dep is obsolete in 2.6

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Many times i wanted to compile a kernel with just a fiew options and get some errors, and when want to kompile with lot of options it's ok. I guess there are some dependency problems, which are not handled properly by make dep? And i heard somewhere that it is a common error.

When reconfiguring a 2.4 kernel it is adviced to do a:
cp .config ..
make mrproper
cp ../.config .
make oldconfig
make dep
etc.

For 2.6 you can just run make, without cleaning up before. To get a resonable small configuration you can start out with "make allnoconfig", which compiles ok in 2.6 for now.

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Is there a dedicated site, forum about this problem?

This is a good place - you can also try kernelnewbies.

Sam