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Old 01-08-2005, 04:29 PM   #1
TaNeK
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Kernel make-kpkg error


Hi

I spent e few hours configuring my new kernel, but when I finally used make-kpkg to make the .deb package I got this error:

Code:
[...LOTS of output]
  CC      lib/zlib_deflate/deftree.o
  CC      lib/zlib_deflate/deflate_syms.o
  LD      lib/zlib_deflate/zlib_deflate.o
  LD      lib/zlib_deflate/built-in.o
  CC      lib/zlib_inflate/infblock.o
  CC      lib/zlib_inflate/infcodes.o
  CC      lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.o
  CC      lib/zlib_inflate/inflate.o
  CC      lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.o
  CC      lib/zlib_inflate/infutil.o
  CC      lib/zlib_inflate/inflate_syms.o
  LD      lib/zlib_inflate/zlib_inflate.o
  LD      lib/zlib_inflate/built-in.o
  LD      lib/built-in.o
  CC      lib/bitmap.o
  CC      lib/bust_spinlocks.o
  CC      lib/cmdline.o
  CC      lib/ctype.o
  CC      lib/div64.o
  CC      lib/dump_stack.o
  CC      lib/errno.o
  CC      lib/extable.o
  CC      lib/idr.o
  CC      lib/int_sqrt.o
  CC      lib/kobject.o
  CC      lib/parser.o
  CC      lib/radix-tree.o
  CC      lib/rbtree.o
  CC      lib/rwsem.o
  CC      lib/string.o
  CC      lib/vsprintf.o
  AR      lib/lib.a
  LD      arch/i386/lib/built-in.o
  CC      arch/i386/lib/bitops.o
  AS      arch/i386/lib/checksum.o
  CC      arch/i386/lib/dec_and_lock.o
  CC      arch/i386/lib/delay.o
  AS      arch/i386/lib/getuser.o
  CC      arch/i386/lib/memcpy.o
  CC      arch/i386/lib/mmx.o
  CC      arch/i386/lib/strstr.o
  CC      arch/i386/lib/usercopy.o
  AR      arch/i386/lib/lib.a
  GEN     .version
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  UPD     include/linux/compile.h
  CC      init/version.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xd094): In function `powernow_acpi_init':
: undefined reference to `acpi_processor_register_performance'
arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xd0bb): In function `powernow_acpi_init':
: undefined reference to `acpi_processor_unregister_performance'
arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.exit.text+0x3b): In function `powernow_exit':
: undefined reference to `acpi_processor_unregister_performance'
drivers/built-in.o(.init.text+0x726c): In function `init_sc520cdp':
: undefined reference to `mtd_concat_create'
drivers/built-in.o(.exit.text+0x1cbf): In function `cleanup_sc520cdp':
: undefined reference to `mtd_concat_destroy'
make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8'
make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2
Beeing the first time I compile a kernel (done it a few times, but never got a working kernel ;D), I cannot figure it out.

Any help is much appreciated.

BTW: What does --initrd do? It has something to do with starting modules i think, but I that's as far as I can understand

Last edited by TaNeK; 01-08-2005 at 05:06 PM.
 
Old 01-08-2005, 05:11 PM   #2
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Having compiled the kernel several times, it seems that your problem
is probably related to something you did to your kernel source,
like a patch. Can you tell us everything you did to it from the
moment you downloaded it?
 
Old 01-08-2005, 05:32 PM   #3
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I downloaded it using apt-get, then I extracted it, put up a symlink to linux, ran make xconfig, configured it, and ran make-kpkg clean and then standard make-kpkg --append-to-version=-050108 kernel_image. It worked fine a while, then this happened. I guess it's something to do with my config
 
Old 01-08-2005, 06:48 PM   #4
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The only other thing that comes to mind is that you are not using the
appropriate version of your C compiler. I've read in a file called
changes.gz in the /usr/share/doc directory of the debian package of
the kernel I created, that the recommended compiler for the kernel
( 2.6 ) is gcc-2.95 because recent compilers have not been tested in
kernel compilation, and most likely contain bugs. You can switch to
it by with :~# MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-2.95" make-kpkg ...
 
Old 01-09-2005, 04:51 AM   #5
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It's compiling atm, but I wonder what an older compiler can do, that a newer cannot? I used 3.3 before...
 
Old 01-09-2005, 05:02 AM   #6
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"finished" compiling, got the same error as above
 
Old 01-09-2005, 09:10 AM   #7
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I always use make menuconfig when I'm recompiling so I just hopped into my 2.6.10 kernel tree and did a forward slash mtd_concat (which looks like / mtd_concat and that returns:

│ MTD concatenating support (MTD_CONCAT)
│ Location:
│ -> Device Drivers
│ -> Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
│ -> Memory Technology Device (MTD) support (MTD)
│ Depends:
│ MTD
│ Selects:
│ None
│ Selected by:
│ None

So if I were you, I'd try navigating in your config to:

│ -> Device Drivers
│ -> Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
│ -> Memory Technology Device (MTD) support (MTD)

Determine if that hardware is really in your system or not. I've found in my kernel re-compiling efforts that errors like this almost always end up being some hardware flipped to ON when my system doesn't really have that device.
 
Old 01-09-2005, 12:24 PM   #8
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BIG thanks, it's compiled, and all but networking is running like a charm
 
  


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