I am attempting to build a kernel with version "linux-2.6.16.13-4", and am
getting the errors shown below. My configuration is SuSE 10 running on a
Toshiba laptop (Satellite) as a VMWare 4.5 guest on XP host.

I have installed the kernel sources from the same DVD as I installed SuSE,
and even later downloaded the source RPM that matches my running kernel
version. I have tried various configurations (make cloneconfig, make
oldconfig, make xconfig, etc), but can't seem to complete the build without
errors. Seems headers or something is still missmatched. Or could it be an issue with
modules? I have successfully built kernels on other machines, but with this
VM environment, nothing but problems.

Here is the output from the point of errors. Thanks for any feedback.

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CHK /usr/src/linux-2.6.16.13-4/include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/compile.h
CHK usr/initramfs_list
HOSTCC arch/i386/boot/tools/build
In file included from /usr/include/_G_config.h:44,
from /usr/include/libio.h:32,
from /usr/include/stdio.h:72,
from arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:26:
/usr/include/gconv.h:72: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/gconv.h:88: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/gconv.h:97: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/gconv.h:174: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before
‘size_t’
In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:72,
from arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:26:
/usr/include/libio.h:328: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before
‘size_t’
/usr/include/libio.h:360: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/libio.h:369: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/libio.h:485: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘_IO_sgetn’
In file included from arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:26:
/usr/include/stdio.h:314: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdio.h:321: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdio.h:363: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdio.h:365: error: format string argument not a string type
/usr/include/stdio.h:367: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdio.h:616: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘fread’
/usr/include/stdio.h:622: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘fwrite’
/usr/include/stdio.h:644: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘fread_unlocked’
/usr/include/stdio.h:646: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘fwrite_unlocked’
In file included from arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:28:
/usr/include/stdlib.h:140: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘__ctype_get_mb_cur_max’
In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:133,
from /usr/include/stdlib.h:438,
from arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:28:
include/time.h:13: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘time_t’
include/time.h:19: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘time_t’
In file included from /usr/include/sys/select.h:46,
from /usr/include/sys/types.h:220,
from /usr/include/stdlib.h:438,
from arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:28:
/usr/include/bits/time.h:70: error: redefinition of ‘struct timeval’
In file included from arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:28:
/usr/include/stdlib.h:455: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:485: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:487: error: nonnull argument with out-of-range
operand number (argument 1, operand 4)
/usr/include/stdlib.h:589: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘__size’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:591: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘__nmemb’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:600: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
In file included from /usr/include/stdlib.h:612,
from arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:28:
/usr/include/alloca.h:33: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘__size’
In file included from arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:28:
/usr/include/stdlib.h:617: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘__size’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:622: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:622: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:776: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:776: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:777: error: nonnull argument with out-of-range
operand number (argument 1, operand 5)
/usr/include/stdlib.h:781: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:781: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:782: error: nonnull argument with out-of-range
operand number (argument 1, operand 4)
/usr/include/stdlib.h:854: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:857: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:861: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:865: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:874: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:877: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
/usr/include/stdlib.h:881: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’
before ‘wchar_t’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:885: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘mbstowcs’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:888: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘wcstombs’
arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c: In function ‘file_open’:
arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:62: warning: implicit declaration of function
‘open’
arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c: In function ‘main’:
arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:79: warning: implicit declaration of function
‘strcmp’
arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:112: warning: implicit declaration of function
‘read’
arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:120: warning: implicit declaration of function
‘write’
arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:122: warning: implicit declaration of function
‘close’
arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:137: warning: implicit declaration of function
‘memset’
arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:137: warning: incompatible implicit
declaration of built-in function ‘memset’
arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c:171: warning: implicit declaration of function
‘lseek’
make[1]: *** [arch/i386/boot/tools/build] Error 1
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

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Hi

I don't know how VM deal with the I/O as the "disk" is a file.

You may find usefull infos on :http://www.shocknetwork.com/forum/topic94.html

Cheers

Thanks for the response...

This kernel compile problem seemed related to the sources installed from the DVD. I downloaded the RPM source file and then the kernel build completed without errors. Hmmmm...