Message-ID: <3A686F85.C2FD47D0@compro.net> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:47:01 -0500 From: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net> Subject: Re: [suse-axp] kernel compiles in 7.0
Rich Payne wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Mark Hounschell wrote:
>
> > Thomas Bruns wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Mark,
> > >
> > > as far as I remember kernel compiling on AXP the problem was XCONFIG!
> > > just try the good old "make config" itīs not a luxury thing but for me
> > > it at least always supplied all options.
> > >
> > > good luck!
> > >
> > > Thomas
> > Yep, your right make xconfig is broken. That stinks. One other thing
> > that was biting me in the A was, I have a DS20 (SMP), I was running
> > the non-SMP kernel while doing my kernel compiles. That DOES NOT work.
> > As soon as I booted the SMP kernel I was able to compile a kernel with
> > no errors using the same .config as when running the non-SMP kernel.
> > I guess if you have an SMP machine you better be using an SMP kernel.
> > Makes sense but this is my first SMP machine and figured it really
> > didn't matter.
>
> Ummm..this sounds a but strange to me. xconfig has worked just fine
> through the 2.2. series, and the kernel you're running plays no role on
> the .conifg you generate. I would suggest you copy out the .config file,
> run make mrproper to clean everything out, and then run make xconfig. If
> that still fails then SuSE has added some patches that don't agree with
> make xconfig.
>
I've done that. Just to verify make xconfig is broken. I took a .config,
saved it as a .bak. Then ran make xconfig and save it back making no
changes. then diffed the 2. They are completely different. It seems like
xconfig isn't starting out with the existing .config file if one is
present.
I realize the kernel I'm running plays no role in make xconfig or
building
a kernel. But if I am running a non-SMP kernel on THIS SMP ds20, I WILL
get kernel compile errors when compiling a kernel. It's like the dormant
cpu is not really dormant????? It actually may finish if I try it enough
times.
-- Mark Hounschell markh@compro.net
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