Re: compiling older kernel on newer machine

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Good to know that...good luck for creating the cross-toolchain.

Regards
Mayur


On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
<chambilkethakur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks a tonne Mayur,
> it works fine.
>
> -anuz
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:09 PM, mayur nande <mayur.nan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Anuz,
>>
>> It works perfectly fine for me. My local machine looks like:
>>
>> # cat /etc/redhat-release
>> Fedora release 11 (Leonidas)
>> # uname -a
>> Linux kratos 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 23:41:33 EST
>> 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> I have 2.6.22 kernel source on this machine
>> I did:
>> # make mrproper
>> # make headers_check
>> # make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=dest headers_install
>>
>> All steps work fine. Can you please provide the error log that you are
>> getting? If you are getting an error "scripts/unifdef.c:209: error:
>> conflicting types for 'getline'", you need to apply the following
>> patch:
>> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11166/
>>
>> This will fix the issue.
>> HTH.
>>
>> Have fun,
>> Regards
>> Mayur
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
>> <chambilkethakur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> in order to build a cross toolchain, as a first step I was trying to
>>> compile kernel headers to be installed on my local machine.
>>> I have chosen an older kernel 2.622, but my machine has native kernel
>>> 2.6.29 and hence compilation fails due to incompatible headers.
>>>
>>> I know, it always recommended to use latest kernel, but _IF_ i want to
>>> compile an older kernel, I need to install headers for the same, so I
>>> did this:
>>> #make arch=i386 headers_check
>>>
>>> but even to compile this, i need corresponding headers.
>>> What is way around this, in order to compile older kernels on new
>>> native machine.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Anuz
>>>
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