From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932535AbXJMQqg (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:46:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751249AbXJMQq2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:46:28 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]:37493 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750883AbXJMQq1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:46:27 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:reply-to:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:organization:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=SISnVn3HY8CHGapXHOD8rEDjyrw/wFa8L1dohNnCAMK8RPtzRZqVaACbJR/lVbajLIvNHaztfKyctAMNDeqx2Oy4BV71hmZmEKe9nTUqyo4oy6nefPMRhT2+pu++7Z9TU5wlKLsvaV9YJfcA3YcutldujYNz/DgdmfkLoq38oJo= Subject: Compiling kernel 2.6.23.1 HELP From: animesh saxena Reply-To: animesh.saxena@gmail.com To: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <20071004040003.303112696@sgi.com> References: <20071004035935.042951211@sgi.com> <20071004040003.303112696@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Organization: Open Source Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:16:08 +0530 Message-Id: <1192293968.16391.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 (2.10.1-4.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I am a kernel newbie, so need some help trying to compile it. I have fedora 7 installed. While compiling it, I get errors as follows..... HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep scripts/basic/fixdep.c:107:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory scripts/basic/fixdep.c:108:22: error: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory scripts/basic/fixdep.c:109:22: error: sys/mman.h: No such file or directory scripts/basic/fixdep.c:110:20: error: unistd.h: No such file or directory scripts/basic/fixdep.c:111:19: error: fcntl.h: No such file or directory scripts/basic/fixdep.c:112:20: error: string.h: No such file or directory scripts/basic/fixdep.c:113:20: error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory scripts/basic/fixdep.c:114:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/include/syslimits.h:7, from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/include/limits.h:11, from scripts/basic/fixdep.c:115: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/include/limits.h:122:61: error: limits.h: No such file or directory scripts/basic/fixdep.c:116:19: error: ctype.h: No such file or directory scripts/basic/fixdep.c:117:23: error: arpa/inet.h: No such file or directory scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function ‘usage’: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:131: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘fprintf’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c:131: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘fprintf’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c:131: error: ‘stderr’ undeclared (first use in this function) scripts/basic/fixdep.c:131: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once scripts/basic/fixdep.c:131: error: for each function it appears in.) scripts/basic/fixdep.c:132: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘exit’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c:132: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function ‘print_cmdline’: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:140: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘printf’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c:140: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘printf’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c: At top level: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:143: error: ‘NULL’ undeclared here (not in a function) scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function ‘grow_config’: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:156: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘realloc’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c:156: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast scripts/basic/fixdep.c:158: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘perror’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c:158: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function ‘is_defined_config’: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:174: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘memcmp’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function ‘define_config’: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:187: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘memcpy’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c:187: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘memcpy’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function ‘use_config’: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:206: error: ‘PATH_MAX’ undeclared (first use in this function) scripts/basic/fixdep.c:214: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘memcpy’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c:220: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘tolower’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c:222: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘printf’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c:206: warning: unused variable ‘s’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c: At top level: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:225: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘size_t’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function ‘parse_config_file’: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:227: error: ‘len’ undeclared (first use in this function) scripts/basic/fixdep.c:233: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ntohl’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c:244: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘isalnum’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function ‘strrcmp’: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:261: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strlen’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c:261: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strlen’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function ‘do_config_file’: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:272: error: storage size of ‘st’ isn’t known scripts/basic/fixdep.c:276: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘open’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c:276: error: ‘O_RDONLY’ undeclared (first use in this function) scripts/basic/fixdep.c:278: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘fprintf’ scripts/basic/fixdep.c:278: error: ‘stderr’ undeclared (first use in this function) On many forums it said I need to have 2.4 kernel headers. I can't understand why is it so? Am I missing something? I used git for getting the latest kernel. git-clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git Is there something similar for getting kernel headers? Please help. Thanks, Animesh Saxena