Re: [2.6.24-rc8-mm1] Locking API boot-time self-tests hangs.

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:59:32 +0800 "Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 18, 2008 2:40 PM, Tetsuo Handa
> <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > It could be compiler version dependent.  I used gcc-4.1.0.  Which version
> > > were you and Zan using please?
> 
> I have the same problem, gcc 3.4.6
> 
> >
> > I'm using gcc 3.3.5 on Debian/Sarge .
> >
> > By the way, 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 doesn't hang with a kernel config
> >
> > # make -s allnoconfig
> > # make -s menuconfig
> >
> >   Set [*] to all entries in "Kernel hacking  --->" section
> >   (except "KGDB: kernel debugging with remote gdb").
> >
> > # make -s && make -s install

The only machine I have with gcc-3.x takes an amazing amount of time to
compile a quite minimal kernel then barfs in headers_install with

  CHK     include/linux/version.h
make[1]: `scripts/unifdef' is up to date.
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `|', needed by `asm-generic'.  Stop.

which is a mainline bug, too.  ISTR someone else reported it but I don't
recall it getting fixed.

I think I'll give up on this.  Either someone else fixes it or we merge the
bug into mainline.