Re[03]: Linux Kernel 2.4.8-pre2 Compile Attempts

Re[03]: Linux Kernel 2.4.8-pre2 Compile Attempts

[John L. Males]

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Keith,

I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to make your reply.  I
am sorry I forgot to mention I am not on the mailing list.  I just
discovered your reply a few minutes ago.

I had prior to sending the original message searched on the internet
for what I "needed" to know to proceed in my attempts.  I am said to
say at that time nothing in the many, and I did read many of the
results litterally, about the programs I needed to update to that
make be part of issue.

Two days ago I did more and more searching and happened along some
links, text files, and in fact the very file you referred to in your
reply online.  I then proceeded to get the SuSE varients I needed. 
Suffice to say the SuSE source RPMs had their share of problems in
being compiled.  In end after my tinkering of the SuSE source RPMs I
managed to start up a 2.4.7 SuSE varient.  I have not gone back to
trying to compile the pre-patch kernel source I had problems with
originally.  The reason is simple, the memory observations I was
keenly interested in indicated some possible issues.

I have since send to the Kernel Mailing list my initial observations
and a request on how I may be able to get the metric information on
Kernel/Application memory use.  That of course is a different issue
and discussion from the eMail you were so kind to make a reply.

Again I want to thank you or the time you took to reply and pointing
me to where I should look for the solution.  I do tend to read
documentation much more than most, but sometimes I miss something or
look in wrong place.  In this case I looked in wrong places combined
with me still learning some of the "finer" points of such Linux
activities as compiling the Kernel.  I at least now in event I forget
to mention in future that I am not on the Kernel mailing list the
mailing list archives are timely in their updates.

Keith I really appreciate your feedback and time to answer.  I cannot
express this enough given my failure to indicate I was not on the
mailing list, nor aware how frequent the list archive may be updated
so I can find out if any replies were made to the list.


Regards,

John L. Males
Software I.Q. Consulting
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
04 August 2001 23:06
mailto:software_iq@TheOffice.net
mailto:jlmales@softhome.net


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Re: Linux Kernel 2.4.8-pre2 Compile
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From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2001 - 04:29:09 EST 

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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 02:31:25 -0500, 
"John L. Males" <software_iq@TheOffice.net> wrote: 
>Without giving the gory details, I am curious to know if there are 
>still problems compiling the 2.4.8-pre2 kernel (2.4.7 + 2.4.8-pre2 
>patch).... Also what is installed in /lib/modules 
>tree is not just modules, but some extensive set of the kernel
>source  tree with object code mixed in for adventure of finding. 
> 
>Am I completely out to lunch 
>here, or should I just hang in. I am doing ok with the 2.2.19 

You are out to lunch, or rather your programs are. Upgrade all your 
utilities to the values listed in Documentation/Changes. 

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From: John L. Males (software_iq@TheOffice.net)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2001 - 02:31:25 EST 

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Hello, 

Without giving the gory details, I am curious to know if there are 
still problems compiling the 2.4.8-pre2 kernel (2.4.7 + 2.4.8-pre2 
patch). Specifically the "make modules" does not complete dues to 
some errors, the kernel compiles, but will not start after it is 
decompressed, if one uses the "-k -i" options of make for the modules
to skip those that are really not a big concern to me anyway, there 
seems to be problems with "make modules_install" either not working 
or some other strange thing. Also what is installed in /lib/modules 
tree is not just modules, but some extensive set of the kernel source
tree with object code mixed in for adventure of finding. 

All I really wanted to do was give the 2.4.8pre2 kernel a try to see 
if memory management was improved with the recent approaches. I did 
try a prior 2.4 kernel, not sure, but think it was 2.4.4 and it had 
its share of compile problems via make. Am I completely out to lunch 
here, or should I just hang in. I am doing ok with the 2.2.19 Linus 
Kernel with the Openwall patch, but I really would like to observe 
the work in memory management of the kernel to determine if may 
observations on how memory is management in the bigger picture to 
determine if I wish to offer my observations to the memory management
discussion. 

Regards, 

John L. Males 
Software I.Q. Consulting 
Toronto, Ontario 
Canada 
31 July 2001 02:31 
mailto:software_iq@TheOffice.net 
mailto:jlmales@softhome.net 

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