[ILUG] Kernel not compiling

[John Malone]

Have you upgraded gcc?

The default gcc on redhat 7 has no backward or forward compatibilty with
any other gcc. As far as I know. 

You'll have to up/down grade gcc and co. 

Could be a long night ahead.... :)

John

* At 17:32, Fergal Moran wrote:
> I have been trying today to compile two different kernels (2.2.9 & 2.3.9)
> under RH7.  I am running "make menuconfig" - and accepting all the defaults,
> then running "make dep" - no hiccups - however when I run "make zImage" it
> runs for about 4-5 mins and then spits this out as the last couple of lines.
> 
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__ASSEMBLY__ -D__SMP__
> -traditional -c checksum.S -o checksum.o
> checksum.S:231: badly punctuated parameter list in #define
> checksum.S:237: badly punctuated parameter list in #define
> make[2]: *** [checksum.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
> make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
> make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/lib] Error 2
> 
> any ideas folks
> 
> if it's of any use - the box is a PIII 700*1 256MB
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> .F.
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