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    SubjectRe: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1
    Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
    > On Sunday, 23 of December 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
    >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc6/2.6.24-rc6-mm1/
    >>
    >> - This kernel doesn't work on i386!
    >>
    >> It oopses late in boot due to an unrevertable change (e3c1b141) in git-x86
    >> which I stared at for a while then I ran out of time and gave up.
    >>
    >> I would have just abandoned this release until it was fixed but I'll be
    >> largely offline for ten days starting tomorrow.
    >>
    >> The culprits have been notified and hopefully we'll have a patch for
    >> hot-fixes/ tomorrow.
    >>
    >> x86_64 and powerpc work OK though.
    >
    > Well it doesn't build on x86-64 for me:
    >
    > CHK include/linux/compile.h
    > CC arch/x86/ia32/../../../fs/compat_binfmt_elf.o
    > Assembler messages:
    > Fatal error: can't create arch/x86/ia32/../../../fs/.tmp_compat_binfmt_elf.o: No such file or directory
    > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/ia32/../../../fs/compat_binfmt_elf.o] Error 2
    >
    > I will post the .config if anyone is interested.
    >

    It's a Kbuild race -- if you keep re-building it will eventually build
    the right file.

    Not excusable, but that's what's going on.

    -hpa


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