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* build requirements for 2.6.0 (make)
@ 2004-01-05 20:53 j.beyer
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From: j.beyer @ 2004-01-05 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw
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Dear Listreader,

the Documentation/Changes file suggest that make-3.78 is new enough to 
build the 2.6.0 kernel:
# grep "make --version"  Documentation/Changes 
o  Gnu make               3.78                    # make --version

I saw reproducable sig segv's with that make at my setup. I ran
the "make all" command in gdb which gave the following output

...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `__build'.
/usr/local/bin/make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=net/sunrpc
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `__build'.
/usr/local/bin/make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=net/unix
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `__build'.
/usr/local/bin/make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=net/xfrm
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `__build'.
/usr/local/bin/make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=lib
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `__build'.
/usr/local/bin/make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=arch/i386/lib
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `__build'.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
expand_argument (
    str=0x8071ebc " echo '  GEN     .version'; . $(srctree)/scripts/mkversion > .tmp_version; mv -f .tmp_version .version; $(MAKE) $(build)=init; ) $(if $($(quiet)cmd_vmlinux__), echo '  $($(quiet)cmd_vmlinux__)' &&) $("..., 
    end=0xffffffff <Address 0xffffffff out of bounds>) at expand.c:417
417       if (*end == '\0')

this happend with make-3.78.

I assume that it only happens with certain environments (e.g. path lengths,
or number and length of enviroment variables and so on). I did not
track that further, but updated to make-3.80 (which is the most 
current release).

So I suggest to lift the requirement in the Documentation/Changes
file. It works here with make-3.80, maybe older version will
work also.

        hope this helps
        Joerg

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