[SOLVED] Error about a file not existing in exported headers?

[computer_freak_8]

I'm trying to compile a kernel, and I'm getting an error message I can't make sense of.

My kernel source is in /usr/src/linux, and I ran "make gconfig", selected what I wanted, saved it, and then closed the window.
Next I ran "make", which ran for a quite a while, scrolling loads of stuff past the screen.

It then spit out an error. So, I tried to run "make" again. I have attached a text file with the last few lines of what it said (most of what I had on my terminal) - including the second "make" command.

Here's the thing I don't get: The file does exist. But apparently it can't find it. I "cd" to "/usr/src/linux/include/asm", and then "ls". One of the results is "system.h".

Any ideas?

[computer_freak_8]

Gee, the "make" program is about as smart as me. (Not very.)

I misread the error I was getting; the file it referred to did not exist.

However, I copied it from another location, (actually the whole directory containing it,) and ended up with another file-not-found -type error. So, I copied it again. And again. And once more, and... Where did it go? Oh, look! Here's the problem:

root@multiboot:/usr/src/linux# cp -rf /usr/src/linux/usr/include/asm-x86/* /usr/src/linux/usr/include/asm/
root@multiboot:/usr/src/linux# make
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
  CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
make[2]: `scripts/unifdef' is up to date.
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/usr/src/linux/usr/include/asm/mce.h requires asm/atomic.h, which does not exist in exported headers
make[3]: *** [/usr/src/linux/usr/include/asm/.check.mce.h] Error 1
make[2]: *** [asm-x86] Error 2
make[1]: *** [headers_check] Error 2
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2
root@multiboot:/usr/src/linux#

Will somebody please fill me in as to what's going on - or better yet, how to solve this problem?


Thanks so much,
computer_freak_8

[computer_freak_8]

Okay, it's official. I'm quite a bit less intelligent than the "make" program.

It tried to warn me; I didn't notice.

I ran "make menuconfig" this time, and when I was configuring all of the options I wanted, I noticed one that said something like "[ ] Optimize for space (Caution! May lead to broken compilers!)".
I marked it to be compiled with this option, saved the ".config" file, and renamed it to ".config-savespace". Then, I change the option in question and saved the ".config" file, which I renamed to ".config-nosavespace". I extracted the kernel source package to two different folders. Then, I copied one of the renamed configuration files to one extracted directory, and the other to the other. I renamed both back to ".config", and ran a "make" command for each of the two extracted directories.

The one that was optimized failed, but the one that wasn't optimized worked just fine.

Conclusion: The "Optimize for space"-type option messed up the compiling process.


Hope someone can benefit from this,
computer_freak_8