Re: Kernel compilation problem with Freeswan patch

[Patrick Morris <trick@adonis.net>]

Carlos Emir M. Macedo wrote:

>         Second, I'm trying to compile my 2.4.18 kernel with Freeswan 
> patch. I followed the instructions of 
> http://www.thing.dyndns.org/debian/wifivpn.htm to compile it with Freeswan 
> support. As the kernel compiles, it looks like the compilation enters in 
> an infinite loop. The module is des_enc.c and the execution line is:
>
> sparc64-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/include 
> -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer 
> -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -m64 -pipe -mno-fpu -mcpu=ultrasparc 
> -mcmodel=medlow -ffixed-g4 -fcall-used-g5 -fcall-used-g7 -Wno-sign-compare 
> -Wa,--undeclared-regs  -D__KERNEL__ 
> -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/include  -c -o des_enc.o des_enc.c
>
>        Is this a bug concerning with sparc64? Am I doing something wrong?

While I've never been able to get FreeS/WAN working on Sparc, I  *have* 
gotten past this problem before.  Compiling that file with -O0 (that's 
hyphen-Oh-Zero) optimization seems to work. I can only assume it's a 
glitch with the compiler.