can't compile kernels lately (2.6.16.5 and up)

can't compile kernels lately (2.6.16.5 and up)

[Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz]

root@puppet:/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.11# make
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/file2alias.o
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:386: warning: 'struct input_device_id'
declared inside parameter list
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:386: warning: its scope is only this
definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
scripts/mod/file2alias.c: In function 'do_input_entry':
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:390: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:390: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:390: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:390: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:390: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:391: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:391: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:391: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:391: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:391: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:392: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:392: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:392: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:392: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:392: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:394: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:394: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:394: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:394: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:394: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:398: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:399: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:401: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:402: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:404: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:405: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:407: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:408: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:410: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:411: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:413: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:414: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:416: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:417: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:419: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:420: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:422: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:423: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
scripts/mod/file2alias.c: In function 'handle_moddevtable':
scripts/mod/file2alias.c:515: error: invalid application of 'sizeof'
to incomplete type 'struct input_device_id'
make[2]: *** [scripts/mod/file2alias.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [scripts/mod] Error 2
make: *** [scripts] Error 2


any hints ? I can see that file2alias.c is using kernel-only includes,
there might be something missing to make it work (this is a hack, and
you know it :P)
--
GJ

Re: can't compile kernels lately (2.6.16.5 and up)

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 09:39, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
>root@puppet:/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.11# make
>  CHK     include/linux/version.h
>  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/file2alias.o
>scripts/mod/file2alias.c:386: warning: 'struct input_device_id'
>declared inside parameter list
>scripts/mod/file2alias.c:386: warning: its scope is only this
>definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
>scripts/mod/file2alias.c: In function 'do_input_entry':
>scripts/mod/file2alias.c:390: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:390: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:390: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:390: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:390: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:391: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:391: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:391: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:391: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:391: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:392: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:392: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:392: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:392: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:392: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:394: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:394: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:394: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:394: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:394: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:398: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:399: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:401: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:402: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:404: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:405: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:407: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:408: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:410: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:411: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:413: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:414: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:416: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:417: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:419: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:420: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:422: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:423: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c: In function
> 'handle_moddevtable':
>scripts/mod/file2alias.c:515: error: invalid application of 'sizeof'
>to incomplete type 'struct input_device_id'
>make[2]: *** [scripts/mod/file2alias.o] Error 1
>make[1]: *** [scripts/mod] Error 2
>make: *** [scripts] Error 2
>
>
>any hints ? I can see that file2alias.c is using kernel-only includes,
>there might be something missing to make it work (this is a hack, and
>you know it :P)

This has a slight taste of a bzip2 error.  As I'm instantly running 
2.6.16.9, and have .11 ready for a reboot, I've not encountered any 
such with my compiles here, but after having been burnt a couple of 
times, I now get the .gz files to src the stuff and have not had that 
sort of thing happen since.  YMMV of course, but its one suggestion of 
something to try.
 
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>GJ
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Re: can't compile kernels lately (2.6.16.5 and up)

[Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz]

don't think that's the issue man. I got 2.6.16.5 from tar.bz2, than
just upgraded with patches to 2.6.16.9, where it stopped to compile.
Now with 2.6.16.11 it still doens't work


--
GJ

Re: can't compile kernels lately (2.6.16.5 and up)

[Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz]

On 4/26/06, Ioan Ionita <opslynx@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try again with a fresh complete tree.
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.16.11.tar.bz2

that did the job, but I guess patches are provided for one and only
reason - so I will not have to download over and over again big pile
of bzipped source from the server. So you say patch is fscked up ?

--
GJ

Re: can't compile kernels lately (2.6.16.5 and up)

[Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz]

> I did all that without errors.  I don't think it's a tarball
> problem at all.  It looks more like a toolchain problem.
>
> Were there any other errors or warnings, e.g., when
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c does
> #include "../../include/linux/input.h"
> does that generate any error or warning?
>
> I think that your last comment was closer to the real problem.
> All of the errors are related to input_device_id.
>
> What CPU architecture/type are you doing this on?
x86, pentim M toshiba laptop.


--
GJ

Re: can't compile kernels lately (2.6.16.5 and up)

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 11:17, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
>don't think that's the issue man. I got 2.6.16.5 from tar.bz2, than
>just upgraded with patches to 2.6.16.9, where it stopped to compile.
>Now with 2.6.16.11 it still doens't work

I'm now booted to 2.6.16.11, and here, from my buildit script, is the 
list of patches used, most of them simply saved to /usr/src from this 
list:
VEROLD="linux-2.6.16.9"
# This is the src file to be used
VERSRC="linux-2.6.16"
# These are the patchfile(s) to be used
VERP1="../patch-2.6.16.3"
VERP2="../patch-2.6.16.3-2.6.16.4"
VERP3="../patch-2.6.16.5"
VERP4="../patch-2.6.16.6"
VERP5="../patch-2.6.16.7"
VERP6="../patch-2.6.16.8"
VERP7="../patch-2.6.16.9"
VERP8="../patch-2.6.16.10"
VERP9="../patch-2.6.16.11"

They are applied in the above sequence further down in the script, and 
they are all error free in application, and now in running that kernel 
too.
[root@coyote src]# uname -r
2.6.16.11

Anyplace you are using a bz2, replace it with the .gz version and see if 
you still have the problem.  I'm not betting one way or the other, but 
it sure tastes like it to me.

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Re: can't compile kernels lately (2.6.16.5 and up)

[Bill Davidsen]

Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
> root@puppet:/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.11# make
>   CHK     include/linux/version.h
>   HOSTCC  scripts/mod/file2alias.o
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:386: warning: 'struct input_device_id'
> declared inside parameter list
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:386: warning: its scope is only this
> definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want

Did you try
- save .config
- make distclean (or mrproper)
- restore .config
- make oldconfig

I think there's a corner case which patch application leaves file mod 
dates wrong somehow.just "make clean" is a cure, but this is the big gun.

I realize you probably know this and tried it before asking, but it sure 
looks like what I see which I brain fart and don't clean properly before 
the next build,.

-- 
    -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
  last possible moment - but no longer"  -me