From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: When doing make on kernel 2.6.5 source, ... CC fs/exec.o CC fs/pipe.o CC fs/namei.o fs/namei.c: In function `link_path_walk': fs/namei.c:772: internal error: Illegal instruction make[1]: *** [fs/namei.o] Error 1 make: *** [fs] Error 2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.5, gcc 3.2-7 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. do make on kernel source (rh8, x11 (terminal), gcc 3.2-7, kernel 2.6.5) 2. 3. Additional info:
RHL 8 is end of life and won't receive further maintenance, so this bug won't get fixed within RHL8.
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