Re: make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2

[Horms <horms@verge.net.au>]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 01:20:35PM +0100, ctrlER wrote:
> 
> 
> Horms wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:48:30AM +0100, ctrlER wrote:
> >
> >>Hi, I'm getting the folowing errors when compiling the kernel.
> >>
> >>CC [M] drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o
> >>In file included from drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:29:
> >>include/linux/i2c.h:58: error: array type has incomplete element type
> >>include/linux/i2c.h:197: error: array type has incomplete element type
> >>drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c: In function 'i2c_transfer':
> >>drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:594: error: type of formal parameter 2 is 
> >>incomplete
> >>drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c: In function 'i2c_master_send':
> >>drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:620: error: type of formal parameter 2 is 
> >>incomplete
> >>drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c: In function 'i2c_master_recv':
> >>drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:649: error: type of formal parameter 2 is 
> >>incomplete
> >>make[3]: *** [drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o] Error 1
> >>make[2]: *** [drivers/i2c] Error 2
> >>make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
> >>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.11'
> >>make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2
> >>root@oversweep:/usr/src/linux#
> >>
> >>Any ideas?
> >
> >
> >At a guess, try compiling with gcc-3.3 instead of gcc-4.0.
> >But unless you have a burning desire to use kernel-source-2.6.11,
> >please try linux-source-2.6.12 which is now in the archive
> >supplied by the linux-2.6 source package.
> >
> I'm using Debian unstable with kernel 2.6.8.
> I'm using make-dpkg, how do I chose what version of gcc to use?

The easiest way that I know is to just edit the top level 
Makefile and replace gcc with gcc-3.3.

> To build linux-source-2.6.12  what's the gcc version I should use, and 
> most important, where can I find that info so that in future updates I 
> dont get stuck again.

linux-source-2.6.12 whould work fine with the latest and
greatest toolchain in unstable, that is gcc 4.0

-- 
Horms