Re: Kernel 2.0.31 won't compile
On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> in make menuconfig, turn off anythig you do not need
> immediately, like any unknown drivers. (look at makefiles and .config
> to know what to turn off).
>
> I too have a hinote vp 575 laptop and a Xircom ehternet/modem
> card, but I have not yet loaded Linux on the laptop -- I'sd
> appreciate it if you would keep me posted.
I finally got 2.0.31 to compile --- and that was achieved by deconfiguring
a whole stack of drivers. I still don't know why I couldn't compile it
with these drivers, but fortunately I didn't need any of them.
I think you said before that the kernel source tree should be self
sufficient---providing its own headers. What about things like stdio.h
etc? Because I think these were the things letting down the side.
When I finally did get 2.0.31 to compile - sure enough the Zircom
ethernet/modem worked fine. I wondered however whether the problem with
getting the Zircom card to work wasn't so much the kernel version, but
something to do with these other drivers. I tried compiling 2.0.32 with
all the unnecessary drivers deconfigured and sure enough, the Zircom card
worked for this kernel too! (Whereas for the out-of-the-box debian 2.0.32
kernel it doesn't work.) I can't see why deconfiguring these extra
drivers should make any difference, but it obviously does!
Thanks again for your help, and for your info on /usr/include/asm symlinks
and the like.
Cheers,
Mark.
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