trouble with 2.4.2 just released

Heitzso (xxh1@cdc.gov)
Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:55:28 -0500


I have two boxes that I immediately
tried upgrading the OS on. In both
cases I use a script to automate the
build with a saved off .config file.
simplified ..
untar linux tar ball
cp config.blat linux/.config
cd linux
make oldconfig
make menuconfig
cp .config ../config.blat
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
... copy files around ...
lilo

On one box the build completed but
with half a dozen C warnings and
a block of assembler warnings (RH7).
These will always leave a sys admin
nervous about running a kernel.

On the other box I have yet to get a
successful build (using a .config that
runs 2.4.2-pre4 fine). ld complains
about a missing binary file.

ld: cannot open binary: no such file or directory

email be directly at xxh1@cdc.gov if
someone has a specific question re how
the kernel broke or if they want a copy
of my .config file

Note I'm running debian unstable/woody
on the system that's failing to build
2.4.2, but this same system handled
2.4.2-pre4 albeit with the warnings fine.

Also, feel free to throw the standard
idiot questions at me, I may have made
an idiot mistake. My /usr partition
that has /usr/src/linux tree has 4G
avail, so I'm not running out of drive
space. I'm running the script as root.
I tried both bz2 and gz versions of tarball.
... what am I missing ... ?

Heitzso
xxh1@cdc.gov
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