On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> I run gentoo x86 stable, so that I usually avoid this sort of thing.
>>
>> This kernel, however, looks balky to me, because it's reporting
>> warnings and other oddities during compilation. I don't like warnings
>> at any time, and with the kernel's make wrappers cleaning up the
>> output they tend to stand out.
>>
>> Here's what I get:
>> -- various type/attribute warnings
>
> harmless.
>
>> -- reports of deprecated elements
>
> even more harmless
>
>> -- a report of "section mismatches", and instructions to use "make
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y" to find details.
>
> completly harmless.
>
> All three 'problems' can be safely ignored. So do it.
>
And how would I know they're harmless. No offense, but I don't know
enough about you to evaluate your skill or knowledge.
I have seen lots of build problems over the decades, but these are new
to me. What I see is that for some time now, kernel builds have been
utterly clean, admirably free from the tedious command-line echoes
that obscure any real information from compiler/linker/whatever build
tools. Suddenly there are three kinds of reports, most of them a kind
that I cannot evaluate. There is no sign of the care that I've found
in other builds, where expected artifacts are announced by the build
("expect 3 strength/reduce errors here"). The kernel build-toolset
look like they it would take a major project to comprehend, which I do
not have time for.
So what's a poor user to do? Believe the first poster responding with
(apparent) authority? Maybe. I'm just going to stay away for a while
and see what shakes out.
>>
>> All that being said, the compilation completes, and I can boot it. I
>> don't know the cause, but I have been unable to get vmware-server
>> running on it, and I'm going back to the previous kernel for that
>> reason.
>
> complain to vmware - it's their closed source crap that doesn't work.
I have less clout with vmware than I have with the kernel team, I
would guess, because I don't pay either one, but at least the kernel
team are not in business to get money from me. But reasonable
virtualization is essential to some of my own projects, and I have to
stick with it. If I have to, I'll learn a different tools set, but
it's not something I take up lightly.
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
