Re: unable to compile a kernel
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:27:50 +0200
martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
> i just tried to compile the kernel.org 2.4.20 kernel, but it bailed
> out, line 440 of ide-cd.h contains invalid syntax -- for gcc-3.3.
> the kernel README says that 2.95.3 has to be used, so I installed
> 2.95.4-17 from Debian. Now the error doesn't appear anymore, but
> a new one appeeared:
>
> gcc-2.95 -D__KERNEL__
> -I/home/madduck/compile/kernel/src/linux-2.4.20-grsec1.9.9h+freeswan1.9
> 9+preempt20030413/include-Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2
> -fno-strict-aliasing-fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe
> -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -nostdinc -iwithprefix
> include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=sched -fno-omit-frame-pointer -c -o
> sched.o sched.c
>
> cc1: bad value (athlon) for -march= switch
>
> So I am unable to compile out of the box. What's going on?
> I searched google and the docs, but I could not find a solution.
I've compiled 2.4.20 with gcc-3.2 (and so have others here).
The problem is that gcc2.x did not recognize "athlon" as a choice; gcc3.x
does.
Kevin
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