Re: [SLUG] Kernel module compile errors

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Sun Jan 11 2004 - 17:52:54 EST


I want to compile my own kernel for several reasons; performance, bells &
whistles, etc.

I like the shortcut. What can I do to fix this?

/mario

On Sunday 11 January 2004 16:46, you wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> > I'm currently using 2.4.20-18.8 and I want to upgrade to 2.4.20-27.9. I
> > have installed modutils-2.4.22-8 I've installed
> > kernel-source-2.4.20-27.9. After jumping to /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-27.9,
> > I run 'make menuconfig', I run 'make dep' and then 'make bzImage'.
>
> Note that you can do something like 'make dep bzImage modules'. I wrote a
> script that does it all, so I just call "../compile & tail -f
> compile.std*" to watch it.
>
> > After that, I run 'make modules' and here's some of the tail of errors I
> > get:
> >
> > /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-27.9/include/net/tcp.h:1349: invalid suffix on
> > integer constant
>
> That's really the only significant one; after that it's totally lost. It
> seems to be line 1349 in include/net/tcp.h where the problem shows up.
>
> Is there a reason you don't use the stock sources? You may not have
> this problem. I've used stock sources with RedHat and Mandrake distros
> for years.

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