"make oldconfig" doesn't work!

pwabrahams · 04-18-2008, 10:50 PM

I'm running OpenSuSE 12.2, x86_64 version, and some software I'm installing requires that I run make oldconfig on the kernel sources (which I've installed and installed again!). I get a similar error with other "make"s:

Code:

suillus2:/usr/src/linux # make oldconfig
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1
make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2
suillus2:/usr/src/linux # make xconfig
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1
make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2
suillus2:/usr/src/linux # make config
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1
make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2
suillus2:/usr/src/linux #

I also reinstalled gcc to make sure that it was the 64-bit version, but that didn't help either.

What's going on here?

datopdog · 04-19-2008, 04:00 AM

have you tried symlinking cc1 to cc ?

pwabrahams · 04-19-2008, 12:35 PM

I put in the symlink from cc1 to cc and got a long stream of error messages. Here is a sample:

Code:

cc1: fixdep.c: No such file or directory
cc1: fixdep: No such file or directory
cc1: unrecognized option '-quiet'
cc1: unrecognized option '-quiet'
cc1: /tmp/ccC52byb.d: No such file or directory

Maybe cc1 is supposed to be something other than a C compiler.

pwabrahams · 04-19-2008, 02:30 PM

It appears that the proximate cause of the problem was that some of my kernel-related and gcc-related packages were the i586 version rather than the x86_64 version. How that came about, I don't know. Tracking down which packages had the problem was pretty laborious. The dependency checking should have caught the problem but didn't.

I also had to do this:

Code:

ln -s /usr/include/asm-x86_64/ /usr/include/asm

After all these machinations, I finally got make oldconfig to work.

I'm surprised that this problem hasn't caught a lot of people. The cc1 problem was reported in some other, older threads, but no one made reference to the 64-bit upgrade.

JZL240I-U · 04-24-2008, 01:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pwabrahams

I'm running OpenSuSE 12.2, x86_64 version...

Whoa, I'm impressed

. Novell only recently published the 11.0 beta1, but you're really advanced here already using the 12.2

.

BTW glad you solved it in spite of the temporal glitch...

pwabrahams · 04-24-2008, 09:08 PM

Sorry for the 12.3 goof. I couldn't remember which version of OpenSuSE I had installed and couldn't quickly think of a way to find out. Neither uname nor KDE application help is of any use on that -- they yield the kernel version and the KDE version, but not the name of the installed system.

Subsequently through Google I found out that the name of the installed system lives in /etc/issue (and possibly elsewhere as well).