Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75240
kernel makefile is broken
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:47:13 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i586; U;) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: Rbuilding the kernel resulted in four major failures that need urgently to be fixed. In addition, the pcmcia-cs package from David Hinds no longer works. I hope bugzilla gives me a chance to append the full explanation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Build a slightly modified kernel; deal with the bugs. 2. 3. Actual Results: Kernel build failed in four ways. Additional info:
Created attachment 78985 [details] Explanation of kernel makefile breakdowns
well you did a make install before make modules_install... that's not good since make install needs the modules installed ;(
I swear, I've used the sequence make dep clean bzImage install modules modules_install successfully in the past. I copied it from somewhere; I'm not capable of making this up. :-) However, your logic is impeccable. So I repeated the experiment with make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install install and everything worked perfectly. Item-by-item: 1) The new modules directory was automatically created - /lib/modules/2.4.18-14nPb 2) There were no complaints about devlist.h or classlist.h. 3) The initrd-2.4.18-14nPb.img was correctly made and it boots. 4) There are still 5691 warning messages, but as I said, they're only warnings. Sadly, my pcmcia adapter still doesn't work, so I have no wireless communication. I still get bind 'orinoco_cs' to socket 0 failed: Operation not permitted but that someone else's problem, I guess. I withdraw this bugzilla report. Thanks, arjanv