Re: problem compiling kernels

[Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:08:43PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> 
> cd /usr/src/linux
> sudo make-kpkg clean
> sudo make-kpkg kernel_image  -revision=custom.1.0
>      complains about arch=i386-none in many ways
> sudo make-kpkg -arch=i386 -revision=custom.1.0

The difference is very subtle, but what I always do is

sudo make-kpkg --revision custom.1.0 kernel_image
               ^^        ^

I am not sure this makes a big difference but try it out. You don't need
the "arch" flag if you are compiling on i386 for i386.

> Why is CROSS_COMPILE defined?  The .config builds fine with generic

I assume because you set arch to any value.

Try my suggestion and repost your results.

Diego Biurrun