(SOLVED) Re: Problem compiling a new kernel, possibly gcc related
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> > Hi there, i got the kernel source for 2.4.20 from an ftp.kernel.org, but
> > when doing a make bzImage I get the following error:
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> > ide-cd.h:440: error: long, short, signed or unsigned used invalidly for
> > `slot_tablelen'
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> > Can anyone point me to a location or should i file a bugreport, if so,
> > against which package ?
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> Hi. If you look back through the archives of this mailing list, you'll
> see that a lot of people have posted a lot of stuff about this in the
> last 48 hours.
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> It's a known issue when compiling kernels with versions of gcc other
> than 2.95. Use gcc-2.95 to compile your kernel.
>
So the problem can easily be solved by replacing gcc by gcc-2.95 in the
Makefile in /usr/src/linux/
Everything works fine now
thank you Chris
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