linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.38 Cant compile

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Message-ID: <20110318223925.GK14675@home.goodmis.org>
Date:	Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:39:25 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Jonathan Andrews <jon@...shouse.co.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.38 Cant compile

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 08:19:22PM +0000, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
> I didn't get very far... 
> 
> Sorry for posting here but google shed no light on this
> 
> Any constructive comments welcome.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jon
> 
> # make
>   CHK     include/linux/version.h
>   CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
>   CC      arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s
> In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:449,
>                  from include/linux/bitops.h:22,
>                  from include/linux/kernel.h:17,
>                  from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:44,
>                  from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:5,
>                  from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:15,
>                  from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:6,
>                  from include/linux/crypto.h:20,
>                  from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c:7,
>                  from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:2:
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/arch_hweight.h: In function `__arch_hweight32':
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/include/asm/arch_hweight.h:29: parse error before string constant
> make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1
> make: *** [prepare0] Error 2

Hmm, that happened in the ALTERNATIVE() macro. Could be a config
problem. Could you send me you .config you used.


> 
> # gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 3.2.2

This is also a pretty old gcc. Pretty much all distros are on 4.*

-- Steve

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