Recently, some issues related to linux-3.4 and iptables have been discussed in the support list for blfs.
When trying to upgrade the kernel of other LFS machines, LFS6.8 failed to build linux-3.4, with error message: <quote> RELOCS arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs Invalid absolute R_386_32 relocation: jiffies make[2]: ** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs] Erro 1 make[1]: ** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Erro 2 make: ** [bzImage] Erro 2 </unquote> It is very disappointing (could not remember the better word) as it occurs at the end of "make". Digging into this since yesterday evening, discovered first that 3.4 is dev and stable version is 3.3.7, second, the error is well known: http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/linux-next-build-failure-after-merge-final-tree-help-207537361.html Finally, this morning, re-read with care the message: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-next/msg20578.html and made a patch. Build succeeded with the attached patch, which was applied with patch -Np1 -i /home/fernando/sshfs/lfs/linux-3.4-relocs-add-jiffies-and-jiffies_64-to-the-relative-whitelist.patch Do not understand why built without problem in LFS "6.5, 6.7, 7.0 and 7.1" (some svn). -- []s, Fernando -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
