2.6.15-1.1996_FC5-x86_64 source is bad ???

[kirov]

looks like the infiniband probelm has been fixed, but trying to compile the source still gives me the following error.

[root@localhost 2.6.15-1.1996_FC5-x86_64]# make
CHK include/linux/version.h
SPLIT include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/genksyms.o
HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/lex.o
scripts/genksyms/lex.c:546:5: warning: "YY_STACK_USED" is not defined
scripts/genksyms/lex.c:1424:5: warning: "YY_ALWAYS_INTERACTIVE" is not defined
scripts/genksyms/lex.c:1427:5: warning: "YY_NEVER_INTERACTIVE" is not defined
scripts/genksyms/lex.c:1718:5: warning: "YY_MAIN" is not defined
HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/parse.o
scripts/genksyms/parse.c:819:6: warning: "YYLTYPE_IS_TRIVIAL" is not defined
HOSTLD scripts/genksyms/genksyms
CC scripts/mod/empty.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig
MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o
HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost
HOSTCC scripts/kallsyms
HOSTCC scripts/pnmtologo
HOSTCC scripts/conmakehash
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `init/main.o', needed by `init/built-in.o'. Stop.
make: *** [init] Error 2

[hollovoid]

you may have selected something in your config that has a requirement you disabled after selecting, I would delete the config file for the kernel and start from scratch, unless someone else can figure out what is making this compile end

or try make clean && make configure && make && make modules_install && make install

[kirov]

the only thing that changes was disabling SMP. any idea what could have SMP dependancy?

[kirov]

BTW hollovoid - thanks for taking the time to answer

[hollovoid]

hmm, not sure as I have not messed with smp before, I will see what I can find. quick question, have you had a successful build of the kernel on fedora before? and maybe a list of what kernel packages you have installed would be helpful (eg kernel-2.6.15-1.1996 kernel-devel.... etc.) from what im seeing around, is that the kernel-2.6.15-1.1996_FC5-x86_64.src.rpm needs to be installed to build a kernel yourself, kernel-devel only provides enough to build modules, but not to rebuild the whole kernel itself, which may explain why you are having the no rule to make target error. just an idea,
and no problem, I know what its like

[kdx7214]

No, I've encountered this as well. There is no option to install Kernel development in FC5T3, so the source never gets installed. I managed to do a yum install kerenel-devel and get the scripts and such, but the actual kernel-source packages never get installed during the process.

Anyone have any suggestions on this?

[hollovoid]

You may have to get the src package manually by going to a mirror, and checking out the directory for development. the only thing that actually gave an option to download the src package was up2date back when that was used more often, but you are right, the source packages are not usually handled by yum or package install (correct me if im wrong somebody).

[kirov]

for FC5 you need to download the .src.rpm they decided to change things.
in order to get src.rpms you may have to enable your source.repo in yum.

[kdx7214]

Hmm... FC5T2 let you do this during install, so I think there is still a problem. I'll try that tonight when I get home and see what I come up with. A brief perusal last night (way too late to be very coherent) didn't come up with a source rpm for kernel at all.