Trouble in compiling kernel 2.4.20

[Aurel Wisse]

Charles,

while we have too few clues as to the exact steps you
took (where did you uncompress the kernel source, what
does your .config file look like, you didn't just
overwrite the existing kernel source, did you?, did
you use a config file from an earlier version while
trying to compile this one?, etc...), I assure you
that it is very easy to configure/compile a kernel
that will not boot. I also assure you that every
(stable) kernel source tree that I have ever
downloaded from ppckernel.org has always compiled like
a charm. So it is *not* the kernel source tree.

My first recommendation: start with a working .config
file (like the one that came with your yellowdog
distro), and launch two menuconfigs in two different
terminals (not xterminals, ttys), one with the working

.config, and one with yours. Then compare, item by
item, between the two and proceed until it works.

Aurel

--- Charles Trois <charles.trois@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>  
> Sorry I sent this message while not complete. What I
> wanted to ask is this:
> would it be possible that this so-called stable
> kernel is bugged? or that
> version 2.4.20 is incompatible with Yellow Dog? or
> that I am making a big
> mistake?
> 
> In the last case, it seems that the error could 
> only come from the xconfig
> phase, and this brings another question: when
> configuring the kernel, what
> is one free to do, and what is one ***not*** free to
> do?
> 
> Any hints will be welcome.
> 
> Charles.
> 
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:41:18 +0100
> > Subject: Trouble in compiling kernel 2.4.20
> > From: Charles Trois <charles.trois@wanadoo.fr>
> > To:
> <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> > Reply-To:
> yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> > 
> > My machine is a new style iMac, running YDL 2.3.
> The kernel in use is
> > 2.4.19.
> > 
> > As an exercise, I would like to get the most
> recent stable kernel, which
> > appears to be 2.4.20.
> > 
> > I therefore downloaded the proper source from
> kernel.org and tried to build
> > the kernel. After xconfig, I launched "make dep";
> this is where things went
> > wrong, as shown by the last lines of the log:
> > 
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/arch/ppc/boot'
> > scripts/mkdep -- init/*.c > .depend
> > scripts/mkdep -- `find
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/asm
> > /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/scsi
> > /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/net
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/math-emu \(
> > -name SCCS -o -name .svn \) -prune -o -follow
> -name \*.h ! -name
> > modversions.h 
> > -print` > .hdepend
> > /bin/sh: scripts/mkdep: Argument list too long
> > make: *** [dep-files] Error 126
> > 
> > The same happened with other downloads
> (ppckernel.org, also the benh tree).
> 
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