Re: Which GCC version for kernels?

[Paul Morgan]

Davor Balder wrote:

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:54:21AM -0500, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
 

Should I be using GCC 3.x for building kernels on Woody?  I'm using 2.95
and I keep getting errors like undefined symbols and modules not being
built or installed.  I've tried both 'make-kpkg kernel-image' and the
standard 'make dep && make clean && make bzImage && make modules && make
modules_install && make install'.  I'm also having trouble building the
wlan-ng drivers, but I want to get a nice clean kernel build before I
try to sort that one out.  (I got make-kpkg to build a package once, but
it didn't contain any modules.  Do I have to use 'make-kpkg modules' or
something?)
Incidentally, what is the command to upgrade GCC?  I'm quite new to
Debian and I've had to install it three times already.  I'm sure that
even with apt I'll find a way to screw it up. :o)
Thanks,
Krum 
   



Hi Krum, 

Did you try running 'make-kpkg clean' first? I think this may well be your problem. 

I think GCC version may not be your problem. 

For your reference, this is the procedure most commonly used: 

1.) while in kernel directory run 'make-kpkg clean'

2.) make-kpkg --revision=your_kernel_name.1.0 kernel_image

3.) once you've built your kernel, you can go one directory up and dpkg -i
your_kernel_name.1.0
I hope this helps (and works for you). 

Cheers, 

Davor

 

A couple of links which I found useful when I finally started building 
kernels, the first one (which I used the most) I DLed and made it part 
of my local documentation.

http://myrddin.org/howto/debian-kernel-recompile.html

http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html

..........paul





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