Re: can't compile kernels lately (2.6.16.5 and up)

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 09:39, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
>root@puppet:/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.11# make
>  CHK     include/linux/version.h
>  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/file2alias.o
>scripts/mod/file2alias.c:386: warning: 'struct input_device_id'
>declared inside parameter list
>scripts/mod/file2alias.c:386: warning: its scope is only this
>definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
>scripts/mod/file2alias.c: In function 'do_input_entry':
>scripts/mod/file2alias.c:390: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:390: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:390: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:390: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:390: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:391: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:391: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:391: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:391: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:391: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:392: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:392: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:392: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:392: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:392: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:394: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:394: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:394: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:394: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:394: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:398: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:399: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:401: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:402: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:404: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:405: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:407: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:408: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:410: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:411: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:413: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:414: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:416: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:417: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:419: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:420: error:
> dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c:422: error: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c:423: error: dereferencing
> pointer to incomplete type scripts/mod/file2alias.c: In function
> 'handle_moddevtable':
>scripts/mod/file2alias.c:515: error: invalid application of 'sizeof'
>to incomplete type 'struct input_device_id'
>make[2]: *** [scripts/mod/file2alias.o] Error 1
>make[1]: *** [scripts/mod] Error 2
>make: *** [scripts] Error 2
>
>
>any hints ? I can see that file2alias.c is using kernel-only includes,
>there might be something missing to make it work (this is a hack, and
>you know it :P)

This has a slight taste of a bzip2 error.  As I'm instantly running 
2.6.16.9, and have .11 ready for a reboot, I've not encountered any 
such with my compiles here, but after having been burnt a couple of 
times, I now get the .gz files to src the stuff and have not had that 
sort of thing happen since.  YMMV of course, but its one suggestion of 
something to try.
 
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>GJ
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