Bug 85198

Insert "make mrproper" between steps 3 and 4.
Insert "make oldconfig" between steps 4 and 5.

It doesn't make for me either. I used the standard i686 config file, selected
using make xconfig and then picking out that config file. The Makefile was
edited to get rid of the "custom" and then make dep was run.

The problem I noticed was that no kernel modules seemed to want to compile
against this setup. ALSA failed, as did the ltmodem drivers, and then the vmware
modules.

All of those gave errors like:


gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE=1
-I/opt/local/src/Sound/alsa/rc8/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc8b/include 
-I/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include -O2 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
-march=i686 -DLINUX -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer
-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -DALSA_BUILD  
-DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c hwdep.c
In file included from /lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/linux/prefetch.h:13,
                 from /lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/linux/list.h:6,
                 from
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/linux/module.h:12,                 from
/opt/local/src/Sound/alsa/rc8/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc8b/include/adriver.h:49,
                 from
/opt/local/src/Sound/alsa/rc8/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc8b/include/sound/driver.h:43,
                 from ../alsa-kernel/core/hwdep.c:22,
                 from hwdep.c:1:
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/asm/processor.h:51: warning: parameter
names (without types) in function declaration
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/asm/processor.h:51: field
`loops_per_jiffy_R_ver_str' declared as a function
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/asm/processor.h:73: nondigits in number
and not hexadecimal
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/asm/processor.h:73: parse error before
`0657d037'

which are truly weird because the string 0657d037 is not in that file.

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2
-DCPU=586 -DMODULE -DLT_VERSION=8.26a9 -DLINUX -DNO_EEPROM
-DLT_SERIAL_MODULE=lt_serial -c -o ltmodem.a ltmodem.c
In file included from /lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/linux/prefetch.h:13,
                 from /lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/linux/list.h:6,
                 from
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/linux/module.h:12,                 from
ltmodem.c:34:
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/asm/processor.h:51: warning: parameter
names (without types) in function declaration
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/asm/processor.h:51: field
`loops_per_jiffy_R_ver_str' declared as a function
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/asm/processor.h:73: nondigits in number
and not hexadecimal
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/asm/processor.h:73: parse error before
`0657d037'
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/asm/processor.h:73: warning: function
declaration isn't a prototype

and 

Building for VMware Workstation 3.2.x
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
make[2]: Entering directory
`/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.18-26.7.x'make[2]: Leaving directory
`/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.18-26.7.x'
make[2]: Entering directory
`/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.18-26.7.x'In file included from
.././linux/driver.c:43:
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/linux/kernel.h:60: nondigits in number
and not hexadecimal
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/linux/kernel.h:60: nondigits in number
and not hexadecimal
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/linux/kernel.h:60: parse error before
`01075bf0'
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/linux/kernel.h:61: `panic_R_ver_str'
declared as function returning a function
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/linux/kernel.h:61: warning: function
declaration isn't a prototype
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/linux/kernel.h:67: parse error before
`20000329'
/lib/modules/2.4.18-26.7.x/build/include/linux/kernel.h:67:
`simple_strtoul_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function



Even a straight compile of the kernel barfed with the message:

kallsyms pass 1
ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-26.7.x/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext
arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o
init/do_mounts.o --start-group arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o
kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o  drivers/char/char.o
drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o
drivers/media/media.o drivers/char/drm/drm.o drivers/net/fc/fc.o
drivers/net/appletalk/appletalk.o drivers/net/tokenring/tr.o
drivers/net/wan/wan.o drivers/atm/atm.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o
drivers/cdrom/driver.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/net/pcmcia/pcmcia_net.o
drivers/net/wireless/wireless_net.o drivers/pnp/pnp.o drivers/video/video.o
drivers/md/mddev.o drivers/isdn/vmlinux-obj.o drivers/sensors/sensor.o
net/network.o crypto/crypto.o abi/abi.o
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-26.7.x/arch/i386/lib/lib.a
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-26.7.x/lib/lib.a
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-26.7.x/arch/i386/lib/lib.a --end-group -o .tmp_vmlinux1
fs/fs.o: In function `zisofs_readpage':
fs/fs.o(.text+0x2e19c): undefined reference to `zlib_inflateInit_'
fs/fs.o(.text+0x2e2e2): undefined reference to `zlib_inflate'
fs/fs.o(.text+0x2e4a9): undefined reference to `zlib_inflateEnd'
fs/fs.o: In function `mnt_init':
fs/fs.o(.text.init+0x93c): undefined reference to `init_rootfs'
fs/fs.o: In function `zisofs_init':
fs/fs.o(.text.init+0xc89): undefined reference to `zlib_inflate_workspacesize'
make[1]: *** [kallsyms] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-26.7.x'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2


So something is messed up here. The kernel RPMS had correct MD5 hashes.

1) you forgot make mrproper too
and 
2) if you want to compile external modules for the kernel binary RH ships, you
should NOT run make dep, because that destroys the information needed for that.

> fs/fs.o(.text+0x2e19c): undefined reference to `zlib_inflateInit_'

Additionally, don't use "make xconfig". Use "make menuconfig". xconfig is known
to create bad kernel configs. This particular one (zlib) is documented in
bugzilla somewhere else.