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Hi, I am new to linux and I am using ubuntu (kernel version: 2.6.27-7-generic) at the moment. I want to recomile the kernel to 2.4.32. But when i try the ...
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  1. 03-06-2009 #1
    naleen
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    need help with make bzImage

    Hi, I am new to linux and I am using ubuntu (kernel version: 2.6.27-7-generic) at the moment. I want to recomile the kernel to 2.4.32. But when i try the command 'make bzImage' i get the following error. Can someone please help me with this. Thanks in advance.

    Code:
    root@hasantha-laptop:/usr/src/linux-2.4.32# make bzImage
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -fno-unit-at-a-time   -DKBUILD_BASENAME=main -c -o init/main.o init/main.c
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/prefetch.h:13,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/list.h:6,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/wait.h:14,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/fs.h:12,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/capability.h:17,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/sched.h:9,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/mm.h:4,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/slab.h:14,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
                 from init/main.c:15:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/asm/processor.h:75: error: array type has incomplete element type
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/fs.h:322,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/capability.h:17,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/sched.h:9,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/mm.h:4,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/slab.h:14,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
                 from init/main.c:15:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp_fs_i.h:26: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp_fs_i.h:27: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8[6]â
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp_mount.h:12,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp_fs_sb.h:12,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/fs.h:733,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/capability.h:17,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/sched.h:9,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/mm.h:4,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/slab.h:14,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
                 from init/main.c:15:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:24: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:25: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:26: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:27: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:28: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:29: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8[]â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:37: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:38: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:39: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:40: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:41: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:42: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:43: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8[]â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:137: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:138: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8[256]â
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/ncp.h:174: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type â__u8â
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/asm/smp.h:17,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/smp.h:14,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/sched.h:23,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/mm.h:4,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/slab.h:14,
                 from /usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
                 from init/main.c:15:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/asm/mpspec.h:87: warning: âpackedâ attribute ignored for field of type âunsigned char[6]â
init/main.c: In function âstart_kernelâ:
init/main.c:367: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
root@hasantha-laptop:/usr/src/linux-2.4.32#
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  2. 03-07-2009 #2
    dijetlo
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    Quote Originally Posted by naleen View Post
    Hi, I am new to linux....I want to recomile the kernel to 2.4.32.

    Wouldn't you like to slice and dice some text files or something? We got lots of really nice desktops, you wanna look at them for a while?...No....we're jumping right into the kernel, eh? Did you back up your data?
    Code:
    root@hasantha-laptop:/usr/src/linux-2.4.32# make bzImage
...[sr/src/linux-2.4.32/include/asm/processor.h:75: error: array type has incomplete element type
    On line 75 of /usr/bippity/boppity/boo/processor.h the compiler thinks there is an array that wasn't completely defined before it was declared. Since it's really unlikely the kernel programmer did that, it's probably a missing or corrupt code page. You see it happening over an over in different files and then the wheels fall off the cart.
    Code:
    init/main.c:367: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
root@hasantha-laptop:/usr/src/linux-2.4.32#
    The accumulated affect of the error.
    I'd start by making sure I summed the kernel download and got a clean package.
    The I'd look at the kernel make script and see if the $PATH variable made sense on my system. Go through the script looking for
    Code:
     #!
    or
    Code:
     #include
    . After the symbols there is a path to a file name, or just a file name. It probably ends in an .h. See if those files exist. See if it's on the config $PATH.
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  3. 03-07-2009 #3
    kyle_p
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    Why on earth do you want to downgrade to 2.4.x kernel series?
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