Bug#322004: kernel-source-2.6.8: Fails to compile on a X86_64 platform

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 07:11:35PM +0200, Manolo Díaz wrote:
> Package: kernel-source-2.6.8
> Version: 2.6.8-16
> Severity: important
> Justification: fails to build from source
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8
> Locale: LANG=es_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
> 
> Versions of packages kernel-source-2.6.8 depends on:
> ii  binutils                      2.16.1-2   The GNU assembler, linker and bina
> ii  bzip2                         1.0.2-7    high-quality block-sorting file co
> ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
> ii  fileutils                     5.2.1-2    The GNU file management utilities 
> 
> Versions of packages kernel-source-2.6.8 recommends:
> ii  gcc                         4:3.3.5-3    The GNU C compiler
> ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev]        2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Development Librari
> ii  make                        3.80-9       The GNU version of the "make" util
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> This is the error message shown:
> 
> arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S: Assembler messages:
> arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S:81: Error: Macro with this name was already defined
> arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S:100: Error: Macro with this name was already defined
> make[1]: *** [arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.o] Error 1

That is very odd. You have gcc 3.3 which I believe should work.
Could you try this with one the configuration supplied
with one of the amd64 kernel images?

-- 
Horms