Thanks to all.
It was make mrproper and make oldconfig that did the trick.
Thanks for the help.
I got it working fine.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven W. Orr" <steveo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Gary Gies" <ggies@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: Kernel Build Problem - Redhat 9.0 - 2.4.20-20.9
> On Sunday, Sep 7th 2003 at 16:40 -0400, quoth Gary Gies:
>
> =>I installed 9.0 on a new machine.
> =>
> =>Then upgraded the kernel to 2.4.20-20.9 by installing the following rpms
(from RHN).
> =>
> =>kernel-2.4.20-20.9.i386.rpm
> =>kernel-source-2.4.20-20.9.i386.rpm
> =>
> =>I then deleted the old kernel (cant remember which one) using rpm -e.
> =>
> =>Then rebooted off the new kernel. (I only have one kernel on my machine
now which is the 2.4.20-10.9 one).
> =>
> =>I have only one set of kernel source as well which is 2.4.20-10.9 as
well.
> =>
> =>I then wanted to practice building a new kernel so I decided to build
the kernel using the config that I found in /boot/config-2.4.20-20.9 which i
assumed (probably incorrectly) that this is the .config file which was used
to build the 2.4.20-20.9 kernel supplied by RHN.
> =>
> =>So I copied this file to /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-20.9/.config.
> =>
> =>Then did
> =>
> =>make clean
> =>make dep
> =>make bzImage
> =>
> =>And ... my build fails with the following
> =>
>
=>gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-20.9/include -Wall -Wstrict-proto
types\
>
=> -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer
-pipe\
> => -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i386 -nostdinc -iwithprefix
include -DKB\
> =>UILD_BASENAME=io_apic -c -o io_apic.o io_apic.c
> =>io_apic.c:45: `dest_LowestPrio' undeclared here (not in a function)
> =>io_apic.c: In function `__mask_IO_APIC_irq':
> =>io_apic.c:140: warning: implicit declaration of function `io_apic_read'
> =>io_apic.c:140: warning: implicit declaration of function
`io_apic_modify'
> =>io_apic.c:140: warning: implicit declaration of function `io_apic_sync'
> =>io_apic.c: In function `clear_IO_APIC_pin':
> =>io_apic.c:169: storage size of `entry' isn't known
> =>...
> =>
> =>I am confused because I thought that the kernel I am currently running
would have been built using the sources in the kernel-source rpm that i
installed and thus a make bzImage (without any mods to the config) would
build a kernal that is identical.
> =>
> =>Perhaps I need to install patches to this kernel from somewhere?
> =>
> =>I did not change anything in the kernel .config file, since I am just
practicing kernel builds to prep for my next project that does involve a
custom kernel.
> =>
> =>Any help would be appreciated.
> =>
> =>Thanks
>
> Before you run make clean have a couple of things to do.
>
> First you run make mrproper. Note that *this* will delete your .config
> file, so save it somewhere.
>
> Next you need to run some sort of make config. It can be config,
> menuconfig, xconfig or oldconfig. I don't care which, but if you don't do
> that then nothing will build. Also, I use the script below to run the
> build. Put it in /usr/src and call it bzcompile.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> process ()
> {
> typeset target=$1
> typeset logfile=$2
> typeset -i status
>
> cat <<EOF >> ${logfile}
> ###########
> # make ${target} #
> ###########
> EOF
> make ${target} 2>&1 | tee -a ${logfile}
> status=$?
> if (( status != 0 ))
> then
> echo "ERROR: Make target(${target}) has failed with status
> ${status}" \
> | tee -a ${logfile}
> exit ${status}
> fi
> } # process
>
> typeset -r klog=~/.kernel
> typeset -r kmodlog=~/.kernel_modules
>
> mv ${klog} ${klog}.old
> mv ${kmodlog} ${kmodlog}.old
> echo " ========= $(date) ========= " | tee ${klog} ${kmodlog}
> process clean ${klog}
> process dep ${klog}
> process bzImage ${klog}
> process modules ${kmodlog}
> process modules_install ${kmodlog}
> cat <<EOF | tee -a ${klog} ${kmodlog}
> #######
> # END #
> #######
> EOF
> exit 0
>
> --
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