Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 22:35:45 +0200 (CEST)
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>
To: s-luppescu@uchicago.edu
cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: RE: kernel build issues
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On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 s-luppescu@uchicago.edu wrote:

> On 29-Jun-2001 Rob Lembree wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >         I can't seem to build the XFS kernel properly
> > on my RH 7.1 machine.
> > 
> >         When I can build the bzImage, I can't build the
> > modules (it complains about hex values in the sources).
> 
> What kernel version are you using? And where did you get the kernel source? I
> had trouble with the kernel-source RPMs I got from the SGI web site (I think
> the problem may have been that I didn't do make mproper before I built it) --
> I could do make bzImage with no problem, but I got those weird hex values
> errors when I tried to make modules. Then I got the prinstine kernel source tar
> ball for version 2.4.5, applied the xfs patches and everything went swimmingly.

The core XFS version in 2.4.2/3 kernels differ somewhat.

The story behind this is that in the 2.4.4 ad 5 releases there were
patches commited that make XFS more compiler friendly to compilers other
then kgcc (egcs 1.1.2).

These fixes might mot be backported yet. I only know that the original 1.0
version source does not compile.

Cheers
Seth