From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261649AbTJRPQW (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:16:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261656AbTJRPQW (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:16:22 -0400 Received: from wiggis.ethz.ch ([129.132.86.197]:27610 "EHLO wiggis.ethz.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261649AbTJRPQU (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:16:20 -0400 From: Thom Borton To: Peter Romba , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Help a newbie: "make modules_install" causes depmod errors for EVERY module on EVERY kernel I try? Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:16:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3F9002FA.6030709@purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <3F9002FA.6030709@purdue.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310181716.15557.borton@phys.ethz.ch> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org What's the compiler version you use? Try gcc -v. If it's a 3.xx, then the kernel won't compile properly. If I am not mistaken, 2.95.4 is recommended. Yours, Thom On Friday 17 October 2003 16:55, Peter Romba wrote: > For some reason I can't compile a kernel anymore. I recently > installed gnome 2.4 from source (the only major system change I can > think of). Now when I try to compile 2.4.21, make modules_install > gives depmod errors for EVERY module, even dummy.o in the case of > an out-of-the-box kernel configuration. This behavior happens on > every kernel that I've tried. This is using the typical make > mrproper, make menuconfig, make dep, make clean, make bzImage, make > modules, make modules_install sequence of stuff. > > In the process of building gnome I had to update ld from an RPM > (couldn't install it from source, e-mail me if you want details on > that). > > Any help would be greatly appreciated :)... I'm at a loss about > what to do. > > --Peter > promba@purdue.edu > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Thom Borton Switzerland