Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1185 mails)

[Rares Aioanei <suse.listen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/14/2010 04:15 PM, Pete Eby wrote:
> > Maybe you should try a newer version, perhaps a git one, with the same
> > config(s),
> > to see if problems persist.
> >      
> Hi there,
>
> I tried again with the latest kernel from kernel.org, 2.6.34-rc7 -
> three days old:
>
> wget 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.34-rc7.tar.bz2
> tar jxvf linux-2.6.34-rc7.tar.bz2
> cd linux-2.6.34-rc7/
> cp /boot/config-2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop .config
> make menuconfig
> make rpm
>
> Results in the same error as the 2.6.33 builds:
>
>   HOSTCC  Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping
>   HOSTCC  Documentation/networking/ifenslave
> In file included from Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c:162:
> /usr/include/net/if_arp.h:61: error: redefinition of ‘struct arphdr’
> /usr/include/net/if_arp.h:145: error: redefinition of ‘struct arpreq’
> /usr/include/net/if_arp.h:154: error: redefinition of ‘struct arpreq_old’
> make[4]: *** [Documentation/networking/ifenslave] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [Documentation/networking] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [vmlinux] Error 2
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.v5oyiZ (%build)
>
> RPM build errors:
>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.v5oyiZ (%build)
>
> I could try putting include guards around these, but that just seems
> like a lot of unecessary work - the kernel tree should build without
> such modification needed.
>
> So far, I am unable to build any newer kernel on Suse 11.2 and would
> love to know what the root cause of this is, and any other suggestions
> would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Pete
>    
If you compile the kernel the "traditional" way, as I posted previously, 
does it fail with the same error?
If so, post your kernel .config file (attach it) so I can test it.
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