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lm_sensors list:
Hi. After reading a few support tickets about similar problems I
discovered why I was getting a compilation endless loop. I'm sending
this email just in case some other user gets into the same problem.
I upgraded the motherboard and CPU of a Slackware 10.1 server.
As there were too many differences in the hardware I had to recompile
the kernel. The problem was that the motherboard BIOS date was set a
few days in the future (I really thought it was Tuesday, not Monday,
go figure).
When I tried to compile the i2c package it started generating
some kernel/*.d files over and over again, in and endless loop.
I later found out the date was wrong (when the computer tried to
sync its date/time with a NTP server, it was too late: several files
in the Linux kernel had their date in the future.
After browsing the support ticket system I learned that if the
date of the filesystem was not right, the make process may behave
like that. So, I unpacked a brand new kernel tree and after compiling
a new kernel, i2c and lm_sensors compiled correctly.
End of story. :)
Regards,
Mario A. Valdez-Ramirez.
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