Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Petr Cech
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:54:37AM -0600 , Steve Langasek wrote: > While a 2.0 kernel may not /run/ with a given glibc, I'm puzzled as to how kernel doesn't care what you have under it. and newer glibc's should work OK even with an older one. Petr Cech -- Debian G

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:33:26PM +0100, Petr Cech wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:28:25AM -0500 , Chris L. Mason wrote: > > > Right, good point. In fact I did use gcc272 for the actual compile. But > > > neither gcc272 or gcc 2.95.3 compi

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:33:26PM +0100, Petr Cech wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:28:25AM -0500 , Chris L. Mason wrote: > > Right, good point. In fact I did use gcc272 for the actual compile. But > > neither gcc272 or gcc 2.95.3 compiled mkdep.c properly. Hmm, I wonder if > > hmm. I wonde

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Petr Cech
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:28:25AM -0500 , Chris L. Mason wrote: > Right, good point. In fact I did use gcc272 for the actual compile. But > neither gcc272 or gcc 2.95.3 compiled mkdep.c properly. Hmm, I wonder if hmm. I wonder how could we compile it in the first place, given there was no othe

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Chris L. Mason
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:22:22PM +0100, Petr Cech wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:08:22AM -0500 , Chris L. Mason wrote: > > Anyway, this might help others who need to compile old kernels, and > > hopefully the problem will be fixed by gcc 2.95.3 final. > > 2.0.38 will probably not compile wi

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Petr Cech
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:08:22AM -0500 , Chris L. Mason wrote: > Anyway, this might help others who need to compile old kernels, and > hopefully the problem will be fixed by gcc 2.95.3 final. 2.0.38 will probably not compile with gcc > 2.7.2.3 very well. You might want to try gcc272

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Chris L. Mason
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:55:12AM +0100, Andrea Glorioso wrote: > > Just did it on a Potato box a week ago, no problems whatsoever. Thought > you might wish to know. > Okay, the problem seems to be with how mkdep is being compiled. I managed to get the kernel to compile by copying the mkdep.c

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Andrea Glorioso
> "Chris" == Chris L Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> Hi Stefan, Chris> Unfortunately, no, I'm still having trouble. :( I might Chris> wind up installing a fresh potato system on another Chris> partition to see if it works in potato or not. If not, I Chris> guess

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-07 Thread Chris L. Mason
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:08:17PM +0100, Stefan Frank wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > incidentally i tried to do the same yesterday. > I got the same error message as you, but didn't bother to try to fix it. > Maybe you need an older version of make? > > If you manage to get this kernel working, would

Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-06 Thread Chris L. Mason
Hi, I am running the latest sid and I'm trying to compile a custom 2.0.38 kernel for use with smalllinux on an ancient PS/2 386 with 4 megs of RAM. (The default won't do because it doesn't have support for ESDI drives.) Anyway, I'm running into a problem. I can't seem to run a make or even make