Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:09:30 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 |
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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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