topic Re: Strange warrnings while kernel compile in Operating System - Linux

Strange warrnings while kernel compile

debian111 — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:44:26 GMT

Hello everybody,
I am trying to compille my new kernel 2.6.15.1 after starting make menuconfig I entered in compilation menu but I am confused because I got output like below when I stop configuration and back to shell.
So I am ineterested, does anybody know what these messages means. I installed all necessary packets and I am curious is there any additional packet to be installed in order to compile kernel.
My distro is Debian Sarge

Thank you in advance

boot/config-2.6.8-2-386:84:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol X86_EMU486
/boot/config-2.6.8-2-386:120:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol PM_DISK
/boot/config-2.6.8-2-386:126:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol ACPI_BOOT
/boot/config-2.6.8-2-386:127:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol ACPI_INTERPRETER
/boot/config-2.6.8-2-386:139:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol ACPI_BUS
/boot/config-2.6.8-2-386:142:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol ACPI_PCI
/boot/config-2.6.8-2-386:162:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol CPU_FREQ_PROC_INTF
/boot/config-2.6.8-2-386:168:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol CPU_FREQ_24_API
/boot/config-2.6.8-2-386:204:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol PCI_NAMES
/boot/config-2.6.8-2-386:327:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol MTD_ELAN_104NC
/boot/config-2.6.8-2-386:379:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol PARPORT_PC_CML1
/boot/config-2.6.8-2-386:384:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol

Re: Strange warrnings while kernel compile

Huc_1 — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:20:38 GMT

Does it compile .. for theses are only warnings
if it does not compile then it should end with a more specific message "Fatal" or "ERROR"

If it compiles try it out (keep old kernel...etc)
boot and test to see if it fits your need...

Give us more information if this not helping out, i am sure someone will be able to help.

Jean-Pierre Huc

Re: Strange warrnings while kernel compile

Mike Stroyan — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:32:15 GMT

You are building the new 2.6.15.1 kernel with a .config file from a 2.6.8 kernel. Several of the .config options went away between those two
versions. Those warnings are about those options that have gone away.

It is not clear to me how you did the menuconfig. I would do
'cp /boot/config-2.6.8-2-386 .config;make oldconfig'
which would produce those warnings and a new .config file that did not try to set those old and removed options.