Re: Cannot compile the kernel

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Jon Haugsand (<jonhaug@ifi.uio.no>) wrote:

> Installed the kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2. Tried 'make dep', but this
> is what happened:
> 
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o
> scripts/mkdep scripts/mkdep.c scripts/mkdep.c:33:19: ctype.h: No such
> file or directory scripts/mkdep.c:34:19: fcntl.h: No such file or
> directory In file included from
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3.1/include/syslimits.h:7,
>                  from
>                 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3.1/include/limits.h:11,
>                  from scripts/mkdep.c:35:
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3.1/include/limits.h:122:75: limits.h:
> No such file or directory In file included from scripts/mkdep.c:36:
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3.1/include/stdio.h:37:23: features.h:
> No such file or directory In file included from
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3.1/include/stdio.h:43,
>                  from scripts/mkdep.c:36:
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3.1/include/stddef.h:213: error: syntax
> error before "typedef"
> 
> Probably wrong packet or something?

Looks like you are missing some files. Did you install libc6-dev?

best regards
        Andreas Janssen


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