On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:07:28PM +0000, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote: > Roland wrote: > > > > > > I'm getting the following error when trying to build > > either 2.6.26 or > 2.6.27-rc1: > > > > > > arch/x86/kernel/head64.c: In function 'x86_64_start_kernel': > > > arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:88: error: size of array 'type > > name' is negative > > > > It looks like you're hitting > > > > BUILD_BUG_ON(!(MODULES_VADDR > __START_KERNEL)); > > > > No idea why you're hitting that though. What's your .config > > and compiler? > > > I think maybe I've figured out what's breaking my build. If use "make -jN" I hit the error. I usually set N to the number of processors (real and HT). So if /proc/cpuinfo display info about 4 processors I use -j4, etc. If I don't specify the number of jobs to run simultaneously the build completes with just the usual warnings. > > Any experts on parallelism out there? Can you post the output of a make -j4 V=1 run that fials and one that succeeds. Then we can maybe spot something. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
