On Thursday 20 March 2003 12:10, Josh Zeckser wrote:
> This is really odd. I have been trying for days to get my kernel
> compiled properly. I kept getting errors (sorry, but I can't remember
> exactly what they were) about smp stuff not being properly defined.
> IIRC, there is only one option about smp in the config options. Since I
> only have one processor, I turned smp off, naturally. Every time I would
> make bzImage, I would get errors relating to smp. If I turned smp
> support on however, everything would work just fine. In fact, the kernel
> I'm running right now has smp support compiled in.
>       Anyway, the question is: Is this going to be a problem for me? SInce I
> don't actually have a multiproc system, is the kernel going to think I
> do and cause problems? Why in the world would kernel compilation crash
> with smp disabled? That is the only thing that I changed to make it
> work. This seems really bizarre to me. It did the same with two
> different kernel sources: vanilla-2.4.20 and gentoo-2.4.20-r1.
>       I just don't get it. Everything is working fine now and I'm not
> complaining, but it's just strange.

Try make mrproper. Probably you have stale dependencies.

Paul

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