Lars Soltau wrote:
> I have spend a lovely evening trying to compile XFS 1.0.1 on a SuSE 7.1
> system. I downloaded and installed the compat-egcs- and compat-glibc21
> rpms from readhat, and kgcc seems to compile my hello.c just fine. Then
> I downloaded a vanilla 2.4.5 kernel and applied the patches. Well, first
> thing I found was that numerous files were missing. The patches inserted
> #include's for e.g. include/linux/xfs-something.h but failed to create
> those files.
Which ones are you missing?
I've compiled from these patches before, so I don't think the patch
itelf is broken...
> Next thing I tried was to get the source rpm directly from your site,
> the one with the patches already applied. I installed it and tried to
> compile a kernel, but the compile failed with zillions of errors in
> floppy.c.
This is probably the broken makefile problem; try a "make mrproper"
first.
Red Hat ships the kernel tree in a somewhat odd state; we inherit that.
HTH,
-Eric
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Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
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