Re: Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
I have been trying to put everybody's suggestions on compiling the kernel. Now, I have traced the problem to the initialization of modutils in in rcS. Basically, depmod -a > /dev/null segfaults and then a variety of kernel not being able to use NULL pointers pop up, eventually halting the

Re: Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread Dänzer
--- José_Luis_Gómez_Dans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:56:43AM -0800, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > This is not needed anymore with 2.95.2 > > > > On the contrary, if you want to build apps with strict aliasing, you have > to > > add -fstrict-aliasing. > > So what

Re: Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:56:43AM -0800, Michel Dänzer wrote: > This is not needed anymore with 2.95.2 > > On the contrary, if you want to build apps with strict aliasing, you have to > add -fstrict-aliasing. So what flags should I use for compiling the kernel then? I don't really know

Re: Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread Dänzer
--- José_Luis_Gómez_Dans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/specs > gcc version 2.95.2 2116 (Debian GNU/Linux) > > Optimization is set to O2. However, I also issue the > -fno-strict-aliasing option, as recommended by > /usr/doc/gcc/REA

Re: Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
--- Begin Message --- I'm using standard stuff found in potato. gcc -v returns: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/specs gcc version 2.95.2 2116 (Debian GNU/Linux) Optimization is set to O2. However, I also issue the -fno-strict-aliasing option, as recommend

Re: Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread aphro
what compiler are you using? what optimization do you have the kernel set to? nate On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, [iso-8859-1] Jos? Luis G?mez Dans wrote: j.l.go >Dear all, j.l.go >I have an Athlon 550 MHz system in which I installed Potato. j.l.go >It's all good with the installation boot disks a

Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
Dear all, I have an Athlon 550 MHz system in which I installed Potato. It's all good with the installation boot disks and all that. The only problem comes when trying to compile a new kernel other than the one that came with the distro. So I downloaded the sources for 2.2.14 and configured