Re: Linux v2.6.27-rc1

[Martin Knoblauch <spamtrap@knobisoft.de>]

----- Original Message ----

> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> To: Martin Knoblauch <spamtrap@knobisoft.de>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>; Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:57:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.27-rc1
> 
> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 04:23 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > 
> > > From: Linus Torvalds 
> > > To: Linux Kernel Mailing List 
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:23:21 AM
> > > Subject: Linux v2.6.27-rc1
> > > 
> > > 
> > > It's two weeks (and one day), and the merge window is over.
> > > 
> > 
> >   CHK     include/linux/version.h
> >   CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
> >   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> >   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
> >   CC      arch/x86/kernel/ldt.o
> > arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c: In function `alloc_ldt':
> > arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c:67: error: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
> > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/ldt.o] Error 1
> > make: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2
> > 
> > This is a x86_64 build on a RHEL4U3 userland (gcc version 3.4.5
> > 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)). Config is taken from 2.6.26.
> 
> Its due to your ancient compiler - fix can be found here:
>

 That are the joys of "Enterprise Distributions" :-)

>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/29/48

 Thanks. Seems to fix it. 

Cheers
Martin