At 01:20 15-6-2001 -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 06:31:14PM -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
> I've searched the archives but found no answer to this question:
> Does XFS require DevFS? Or can I build a kernel for my system
> (installed from the XFS RH7.1 .iso) that does not include devfs
> without having problems?
>
> I've been completely unable to build a working kernel using either
> the RH-2.96 or egcs -- the build either fails or gives me a kernel
> that produces random segfaults, oopsen, and fs corruption. I've tried
> the .src.rpm on the .iso, the 2.4.3 patches and the CVS devel tree.
>
Thanks you everyone for your replies, and for putting up with my
frustration. Now that I know that my problem wasn't a misconfiguration
I have built two kernels now with xfs support -- v2.4.3 with the 1.0
release patches, built with egcs. Both machines appear to be working fine.
The problem was definitely compiler related -- even the latest release
of 2.96 didn't work for me, though I read somewhere that it did. The
redhat-patched kernel in the src.rpm didn't build with egcs (kgcc) but
a vanilla 2.4.3 with xfs patches applied built fine. RedHat builds and
tests their kernels with 2.96, so I suspect one of their patches doesn't
like egcs. (The failure was an "internal compiler error" that happened
twice, the second again in the same place, after a `make clean`)
Internal compiler errors are mostly related to some sort of hardware failure.
It just does not say what.
The other build failures I got were likely due to a combination of fs
corruption (there were some complaints about missing files) and the wrong
compiler. The hardware on this machine is solid, though I have another with
flaky memory; the problem was 100% gcc-2.96. So don't use it for XFS
kernels. :-)
That is known and is in the FAQ afaik.
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.
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