Trouble compiling kernel 2.6.6

[udayask]

I have RH Fedora core 1 distribution installed in a local system. I downloaded the 2.6.6 kernel source and installed it. Then when ever I try to compile the source, "

make mrproper
make menuconfig (& do a do nothing save)
make
"

it gives the error,

make[1]: no rule to make target 'arch/i386/kernel/entry.o, needed by 'arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o'. Stop.
make: *** ...... Error 2.

I have gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (RH Linux 3.3.2-1).

Previously, after I installed the source fresh, I had directly given make menuconfig -> make & was getting the error like

"invalid '(' symbol, in /arch/i386/kernel/entry.s at line no. 150".

What is the use of the patch file that is available for each version? Should I patch a 2.6.6.tar.gz source with a 2.6.6 patch.

I am still new to Linux.

Thanks in advance.
Uday

[mattst88]

cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
cp /usr/Linux/src/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/newkernel
make modules_install

Generally thats how you are going to go about compiling a kernel.
Notice that there is no plain "make" command.

[udayask]

I agree but, the compilation does not seem to be going beyond the first step.

Does anybody know if kernel 2.6.x compiles with GCC 3.3.2? Or if I have a source code problem?

Uday

[sarumont]

Try a make clean after the mrproper in your original method. If that doesn't work, I would get a new source tree and see if that fixes it.

[udayask]

Oh Ok! Thanks! That fixes it. The souirce tree was corrupted, I guess. I wonder why 'tar' or 'gunzip' didn't even warn me about it.

Kernel 2.6.6 runs very stable!

Uday

[variant]

for the 2.6 kernel you just run "make" without options so:

make && make clean bzImage