[vibha]

RedHat 9 is installed on a multiprocessor machine. The kernel version is 2.4.20-30.9smp. For debugging purpose I have to compile this kernel. I performed the following steps:
- Downloaded kernel-source-2.4.20-30.9.i386.rpm and installed them.
- Instead of "make config" I copied the configuration file /boot/config-2.4.20-30.9smp to /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/.config
- make dep
It gave the following error "md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 13 computed checksums did NOT match" but the exit code was 0.
- make clean
- make bzImage
This was unsuccesfull with exit code 2. There were large number of errors and warnings. Some of the errors are as follows:
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arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x1d3): In function `machine_restart':
: undefined reference to `phys_cpu_present_map'
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x1db): In function `machine_restart':
: undefined reference to `boot_cpu_physical_apicid'
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x26ff): In function `device_not_available_emulate':
: undefined reference to `math_emulate'
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x2f7e): In function `default_do_nmi':
: undefined reference to `nmi_watchdog'
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x2f99): In function `default_do_nmi':
: undefined reference to `nmi_watchdog_tick'
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x7569): In function `call_apic_timer_interrupt':
: undefined reference to `smp_apic_timer_interrupt'
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x758e): In function `call_error_interrupt':
: undefined reference to `smp_error_interrupt'
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x75ae): In function `call_spurious_interrupt':
: undefined reference to `smp_spurious_interrupt'
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x8ced): In function `timer_interrupt':
: undefined reference to `using_apic_timer'
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x8d67): In function `timer_interrupt':
: undefined reference to `smp_local_timer_interrupt'
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x90b9): In function `sys_mmap2':
: undefined reference to `__down_write'
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x90e4): In function `sys_mmap2':
: undefined reference to `__up_write'
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x9192): In function `old_mmap':
: undefined reference to `__down_write'
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x91ba): In function `old_mmap':
: undefined reference to `__up_write'
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x9424): In function `sys_uname':
: undefined reference to `__down_read'

and so on...
make[1]: *** [kallsyms] Error 1
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2

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Can anyone guide on this? I also did "make checkconfig" which gave many such lines:
arch/alpha/kernel/irq_smp.c: 127: need CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK.
arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c: 1388: need CONFIG_OSF4_COMPAT.
arch/alpha/kernel/semaphore.c: 60: need CONFIG_DEBUG_SEMAPHORE.
arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c: 1050: need CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK.
arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c: 1142: need CONFIG_DEBUG_RWLOCK.

Thanks,
Vibha

[tsunam]

Do a ls -l in the main directory where all your sources are...and show us what the printout of that is. (in /usr/src).

also were you root when you did your make's etc?

[vibha]

Here is a listing of the source directory:
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[root@ps0341 linux-2.4.20-30.9]# ls -al
total 1000
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jun 17 23:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 17 23:43 ..
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Jun 16 21:09 arch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44731 Jun 17 23:37 .config
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 04:10 configs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18691 Aug 3 2002 COPYING
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16237 Feb 5 07:28 COPYING.modules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79913 Feb 5 06:55 CREDITS
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 17 22:34 crypto
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4486 Jun 17 22:30 .depend
drwxr-xr-x 31 root root 4096 Jun 16 22:43 Documentation
drwxr-xr-x 45 root root 4096 Jun 16 21:09 drivers
drwxr-xr-x 47 root root 4096 Jun 17 22:33 fs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 214264 Jun 17 22:30 .hdepend
drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 4096 Jun 17 20:50 include
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 22:31 init
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 22:34 ipc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 22:32 kernel
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 17 22:34 lib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43544 Feb 5 06:55 MAINTAINERS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20475 Jun 17 02:47 Makefile
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 22:33 mm
drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Jun 17 22:34 net
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14239 Aug 3 2002 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2818 Feb 5 06:55 REPORTING-BUGS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9217 Feb 5 06:55 Rules.make
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 17 01:08 scripts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 452418 Jun 17 22:30 tmp_include_depends
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3 Jun 17 22:31 .version
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I executed the commands as root user.
I have also tried the following:
cp /boot/config-2.4.20-30.9smp .config
make oldconfig

But it copies the current .config to .config.old and creates another .config which has lot of differences then the earlier one. I have attached both the files.
If I proceed further and do "make dep" and "make bzImage" they work fine but make modules fail with errors some of which are as follows:
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paep.c:1054: called object is not a function
paep.c:1078: invalid suffix on integer constant
paep.c:1078: warning: null format string
paep.c:1078: warning: null format string
paep.c:1078: called object is not a function
paep.c: In function `aep_remove_one_device':
paep.c:1124: `f20dabd8' undeclared (first use in this function)
paep.c:1124: called object is not a function
paep.c:1129: invalid suffix on integer constant
paep.c:1129: warning: null format string
paep.c:1129: warning: null format string
paep.c:1129: called object is not a function
paep.c:1139: invalid suffix on integer constant
paep.c:1139: called object is not a function
paep.c:1148: invalid suffix on integer constant
paep.c:1148: called object is not a function
paep.c:1153: invalid suffix on integer constant
paep.c:1153: called object is not a function
paep.c:1158: invalid suffix on integer constant
paep.c:1158: called object is not a function
make[3]: *** [paep.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/drivers/addon/aep'
make[2]: *** [_modsubdir_aep] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/drivers/addon'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_addon] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
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Thanks,
Vibha

[tsunam]

-.-;; sources directory i meant was /usr/src not the /usr/src/kernel-version *^.^* gomen gomen. I want to see what the actual linux directory points to. I have a feeling that might be one of the things that are off. After that we can work on getting the make to actually work, you might just want to go thru the make menuconfig of the linux once we have that pointing to the correct source directory.

[vibha]

[root@ps0341 src]# ls -al
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jun 22 04:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jan 16 05:33 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 25 2003 debug
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 22 04:28 linux-2.4 -> linux-2.4.20-30.9
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jun 22 04:34 linux-2.4.20-30.9
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jan 13 00:58 redhat
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Thanks for your help. I succesfully compiled the kernel and even rebooted into it. My mistake was I had not done make oldconfig.
Now I have another problem. I installed a wrong patch for kdb (kdb-v4.4-2.6.6, instead of kdb-v4.3-2.4.20). The patch did not install properly there were .rej files. But I still compiled the kernel succesfully. Now since kdb did not work I reinstalled the kernel source (even deleted directory linux-2.4.20-30.9 in /usr/src). But now the "make modules" exits with errors like below:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
manu such error before this......
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/include/net/dst.h: In function `dst_set_expires':
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/include/net/dst.h:149: `jiffies_Rsmp_0da02d67' undeclared (first use in this function)
In file included from cipe.h:69,
from module.c:15:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/include/net/sock.h: In function `sk_filter_release':
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/include/net/sock.h:959: warning: implicit declaration of function `kfree_Rsmp_037a0cba'
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/include/net/sock.h: In function `sock_orphan':
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/include/net/sock.h:1041: `do_softirq_Rsmp_f0a529b7' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/include/net/sock.h: In function `sock_graft':
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/include/net/sock.h:1050: `do_softirq_Rsmp_f0a529b7' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/include/net/sock.h: In function `sock_recv_timestamp':
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/include/net/sock.h:1293: warning: implicit declaration of function `put_cmsg_Rsmp_f39bf4d9'
module.c: In function `cipe_check_kernel':
module.c:73: warning: implicit declaration of function `printk_Rsmp_1b7d4074'
make[3]: *** [module.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/drivers/addon/cipe'
make[2]: *** [_modsubdir_cipe] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/drivers/addon'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_addon] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
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thanks,
Vibha

[vibha]

As far as I know (from strace patch -p1 kdb.....)the kdb patch has only modified file in the linux source tree which I have installed fresh now. I have no idea why the same steps of compilation taht passed before are failing now. Is there any way that I can restore the initial state?

thanks,
Vibha