Is anyone able to compile kernel 2.4.19 from source?
As noted in earlier posts, awk fails with a segfault on make menuconfig when
trying to compile kernel-source-2.4.19.
I've posted several times on this problem, and have tried all suggestions
given so far. Since my last post I have done many tests on clean VMware
virtual machines running fresh installs of woody. Here's a bug report that I
sent on this issue (below). I'd appreciate any reports of similar problems,
or of successful compiles and how the conditions or methods might differ.
BTW, the path for the user attempting the make config that fails is:
user@host:/usr/src/linux$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:
/usr/bin/X11
user@host:/usr/src/linux$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/share:/usr/include
Package: kernel-source-2.4.19
Version: 2.4.19-1
Severity: grave
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686
unknown
Versions of the packages kernel-source-2.4.19 depends on:
ii binutils 2.12.90.0.1-4 The GNU assembler, linker and binary
utiliti
ii bzip2 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file
compressor
ii fileutils 4.1-10 GNU file management utilities
Upon executing 'make menuconfig' in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19, the
process dies with the error at the bottom of the following session text:
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user@host:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19$ make menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19/scripts/lxdialog'
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o checklist.o checklist.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o menubox.o menubox.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o textbox.o textbox.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o yesno.o yesno.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o inputbox.o inputbox.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o util.o util.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o lxdialog.o lxdialog.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o msgbox.o msgbox.c
gcc -o lxdialog checklist.o menubox.o textbox.o yesno.o inputbox.o util.o
lxdialog.o msgbox.o -lncurses
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19/scripts/lxdialog'
/bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/i386/config.in
Using defaults found in .config
Preparing scripts: functions, parsingscripts/Menuconfig: line 1: 1493
Segmentation fault awk "$1"
Awk died with error code 139. Giving up.
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1
user@host:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19$
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I have attempted this step of the kernel compile process at least twenty
times, following advice from the Debian User mail list to:
- Unpack the source tar file as user and not root (and carefully set
permissions on the source directory. I went beyond that to set ownership of
/usr/src to user, and also added user to src group as advised. I also
executed the entire process as root, which should avoid permissions issues.
All but one attempt started with a clean unpack of the kernel source tar
file.
- Use gawk instead of mawk for awk, by installing gawk and changing the
simlink in /etc/alternatives to point to gawk. The same error persists,
whether gawk or mawk is used. This bug is not a duplicate of #81487 because
using gawk instead of mawk does not avoid the error. I even deleted mawk to
ensure that gawk was being used.
Testing also included gcc-3.2 and gcc-2.95.4, binutils 2.13.90.0.4-1, and
versions of other dependencies from testing / unstable.
These kernel compile attempts were run several times on a PIII 850 with 1GB
RAM, and several more times on a VMware virtual machine with a completely
clean install of Debian woody (stable) from a minimal CD from LordSutch.com
(with base install from main Debian archive over network). Each time the
make menuconfig dies with the same error.
The last attempt was on a VMware virtual machine on which nothing was
installed except sudo and the packages required for the kernel compilation,
including gcc-2.95.4 and those listed at
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html, along with
their dependencies.
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