RH7.3 Updates - Compile Issues

RH7.3 Updates - Compile Issues

[Randy Broman]

I had a working RH7.3 system with a stock 2.4.18-3 kernel. "Working"
included previous ability to compile a variety of software successfully,
although I had never compiled a new kernel.

With the intention of compiling a custom kernel I installed the following
software from Red Hat 7.3 Updates as follows: 

cpp-2.96-113.i386.rpm
gcc-2.96-113.i386.rpm
gcc-c++-2.96-113.i386.rpm
gcc-chill-2.96-113.i386.rpm
gcc-g77-2.96-113.i386.rpm
libstdc++-2.96-113.i386.rpm
libstdc++-devel-2.96-113.i386.rpm
binutils-2.11.93.0.2-11.i386.rpm
glibc-2.2.5-42.i386.rpm
glibc-common-2.2.5-42.i386.rpm
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-7.16.i386.rpm
kernel-source-2.4.18-19.7.x.i386.rpm

Unable to compile kernel, with the error messages below. Carefully went thru
.config file, reran after make clean/mrproper, etc. Make dep looks OK, but ...

#make bzImage
etc, etc, then ....

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-19.7.x/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe 
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4    -nostdinc -I 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=serial  
-DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c serial.c
serial.c: In function `rs_read_proc':
serial.c:3361: Internal error: Segmentation fault.
Please submit a full bug report.
See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions.
make[3]: *** [serial.o] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-19.7.x/drivers/char'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-19.7.x/drivers/char'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_char] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-19.7.x/drivers'
make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2


I then did some further testing and found I was unable to compile some
software that previously compiled successfully. Ideas appreciated ..

Pls cc me personally on responses ... thx, Randy

Re: RH7.3 Updates - Compile Issues

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 01:09, Randy Broman wrote:
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-19.7.x/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes 
> -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe 
> -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4    -nostdinc -I 
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=serial  
> -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c serial.c
> serial.c: In function `rs_read_proc':
> serial.c:3361: Internal error: Segmentation fault.
> Please submit a full bug report.
> See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions.

> I then did some further testing and found I was unable to compile some
> software that previously compiled successfully. Ideas appreciated ..

gcc tends to show up hardware problems, however if you could use the old
compiler reliably thats not neccessarily fitting the pattern well. 

rpm --verify will let you check packages installed correctly

In general though
If the error is at the same spot each time - suspect software
If the error is in different spots when you rerun the same make -
suspect hardware

Also check you have swap space so are not running out of RAM