[Linux-disciples] Kernel errors

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 12:45:50PM -0400, Adam Kessel wrote:
> Are you using JFS?

I guess I don't know. It must have gone in as part of the
2.6.6-2 kernel, because I don't think I specified that it be
added via 'make oldconfig'.

This compile error has already shown up in Google. See

http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/6/16/132

> When I get these errors (which I haven't for a long time now), it's
> almost always something with the toolchain for building, rather than the
> source itself.  Bleeding edge kernels build best with bleeding/leading
> edge compilers.  My default gcc (gcc -v) is 3.3.4; what's yours?  Do you
> know which compiler the makefile is using?  It may just default to the
> /usr/bin/gcc.

A quick scan of the makefile doesn't show a particular
version. However, gcc -v gives

/*
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/specs
gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)
*/

which could be the problem. Looks like /usr/bin/gcc is a
symlink to a script called gcc.wrapper, which only really
seems to matter during apt-build. It symlinks, in turn, to
gcc.real ... hang on ... there we go: now gcc.real points to
gcc-3.3. I'll see if that does the trick. Thanks, Adam.

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