Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: regarding kernel compilation | Date | Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:12:27 +0300 |
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On Tuesday 20 September 2005 10:11, Fawad Lateef wrote: > On 9/20/05, Gireesh Kumar <gireesh.kumar@einfochips.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to compile 2.4.20-6 kernel while running in 2.6 kernel. I tried > > to do so but there are redeclaration errors with /kernel/sched.c and > > /include/linux/sched.h. One it is FASTCALL and the other it is not. > > Can anyone help me to fix this?
Kernel conpile should never use system includes, let alone includes from _another_ kernel tree. (Using stdarg.h from gcc is ok)
> I don't think you will be able to compile 2.4 kernel on to the 2.6 > kernel based distro .... as in 2.6 based distro, mod-utils and other
2.6 modutils (module-init-tools to be exact) fall back to <toolname>.old (by just exec'ing it) if those exist.
> packages are updated and will only support 2.6 based kernel .... So
Not true. I compiled 2.4 kernels on 2.6 machine without any problems.
> its better to get 2.4 kernel based distribution .... (and can keep/run > both 2.6 and 2.4 based distributions simultanously on the same system, > so that you can boot in any of them as per your requirement of 2.4 or > 2.6 kernel) -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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