Hello - I was trying my first kernel compile, making one with built-in ELF support in preparation for the 1.1 upgrade. All my tools (& whole system) were from the debian-0.93 directory at the tsx-11 mirror, as of the last few weeks; running gcc-2.6.3-5.deb on source-1.2.13-7.deb. Let me know if I should give more package version information; it seemed I had everything I needed, all dependencies satisfied to run the above. The one irregularity: I first installed the includes.deb package, then later ran 'dpkg --purge includes' before installing source.deb. Appeared to go ok. Hardware is Compaq Presario 4DX33, only 4M RAM, installed via ftp & floppy.
So here's my problem: the 'make dep,' and then the 'make zImage' failed, citing the 'bsd_comp.h' library, and saying it could only be made as a module. I don't believe I answered about that package in 'make config,' and I wanted to ask here before trying all again. More detail: First, following the Kernel-HOWTO, I think, I did a 'make mrproper.' Then the make config; chose to include networking, & slip but no e-net cards, took the standard tcp/ip options but not the fancy ones, gatewaying masqerading et.al. (If I should have just done this all again to see my error, sorry.) Then a 'make dep;' it did give an error about 'bsd_comp,' and perhaps it stopped early right there, but I wasn't prompted about this by the documents I had and decided to go ahead anyway. 'Make clean' appeared to go ok; I don't have all the diagnostic output, but here's what 'make zImage' then said when it stopped: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-1.2.13/include -E -I../../net/inet -M Space.c <- this line wrapped for mail auto_irq.c net_init.c loopback.c ppp.c bsd_comp.c slip.c slhc.c > .depend <- ditto bsd_comp.c:56: #error This file must be compiled as a module. make[2]: *** [dep] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-1.2.13/drivers/net' make[1]: *** [dep] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-1.2.13/drivers' make: *** [depend] Error 2 I can go look in those ^^ directories, and try and pull out references in the makefile there, but wouldn't know just what I was doing. I looked at the bug-list archives & didn't see anything there, but having a small system stricly made of deb packages, I'm surprised having a non-standard problem. Maybe it's just something I did; any help appreciated. Tried to include what info I could, let me know if I need more, but this one's long enough now as it is. Thanks, -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
