error: #error Your version of gcc miscompiles the __weak directive
 

Hi
I am using RHEL 5 with Kernel version of 2.6.18 and gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 . I am getting the error like

error: #error Your version of gcc miscompiles the __weak directive

while I was trying to compile a code 2.6.30 code on same machine.

how can I over come this problem to get full compilation new kernel.

Give gcc 4.3 a try.

# yum install gcc43
.. which provides version 4.3.2-7.el5.

Example command using gcc-4.3.2 :
'make CC=gcc43'