From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010608 Description of problem: (N.B. This is a bug in kernel-source, which doesn't seem to be an option in the packages list): When I try to make boot in /usr/src/linux-2.4, I get the error: timer.c:40: conflicting types for `xtime' /usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/linux/sched.h:548: previous declaration of `xtime' How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install kernel-source 2.4.3-12 2.Configure the kernel 3.make dep 4.make boot Actual Results: I get the error reported above. Additional info: I have the gcc-3.0 package installed. I understand this might not work for building a kernel, but it doesn't seem to be the problem in this instance, where the two declarations simply don't match (AFAICS).
Thanks for the report. This is a known point where gcc3 breaks the kernel, and there are several others as well. This will be fixed for later kernels we put out, but I'd strongly recommend not using gcc3 for a kernel for now, not until there's been more testing.