Bug 38878
| Summary: | Too many levels of symbolic links | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Magnus Johansson <l_magnus_j> |
| Component: | gcc | Assignee: | Jakub Jelinek <jakub> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-05-03 05:17:31 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Upgrades from beta releases to the final release are NOT supported. This is one of the cases. Basically, rpm -e all the compat-* stuff, then install it again. Wolverine had files from two directories hardlinked together which for various reasons did not work well, so they were replaced with symlinks. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010316 This is a system that has been upgraded from 7.1beta2 (Wolverine) to 7.1 (Seawolf). When I try to compile the new kernel 2.4.4 using kgcc instead of gcc, I get the following message: /usr/include/stdio.h:33: stddef.h: Too many levels of symbolic links In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:35, from tkparse.c:48: /usr/include/bits/types.h:29: stddef.h: Too many levels of symbolic links In file included from /usr/include/libio.h:30, from /usr/include/stdio.h:64, from tkparse.c:48: ... This did not happen in Wolverine. Should kgcc still be used in R.H. 7.1 for kernel compilation? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.untar the kernel source code under /usr/src 2.Change in Makefile to use kgcc instead of gcc 3.make xconfig Actual Results: /usr/include/stdio.h:33: stddef.h: Too many levels of symbolic links In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:35, from tkparse.c:48: /usr/include/bits/types.h:29: stddef.h: Too many levels of symbolic links In file included from /usr/include/libio.h:30, from /usr/include/stdio.h:64, from tkparse.c:48: Expected Results: No error message, kernel compilation should have proceeded without problems.