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Re: [Users] Kernel build error message bogus?

From: Henry Spencer (henry_at_spsystems.net)
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 04:03:04 CEST


On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, David A. Bandel wrote:
> ***ERRORS DETECTED in out.kbuild (examine file for details):
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.18/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
> -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common
> -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DKBUILD_BASENAME=errors
> -c -o eror.o eror.c

The problem is that this line contains the word "error". (Actually, it
contained it several times, but the "error.*" occurrences got fixed up
before the detector saw them.)

The error detector was deliberately built to be quite conservative --
since we can't trust the kernel Makefiles to stop properly on an error --
and every now and then somebody messes with kernel details in such a way
as to make it give a false alarm.

It's no longer clear that this was such a good idea, the false alarms have
gotten rather more common than they used to be.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry_at_spsystems.net

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