Modules Compilation problem
 

hi
i try to compile modules for 2.4.22
but get like 1000 s of this errors :

"warning: comparison between signed and unsigned"

by many drivers

can i just ignore this ?
i got just a few modules after proces like this :

make menuconfig (then load suse orig config from /boot/vmlinuz.config)

make dep
make clean
make modules
make modules_install

any Ideas ?

thx

That warning is pretty common. You can probably ignore it, though I don't know why you would only be getting a few modules compiled. Is your configuration such that it will compile more modules than you are actually getting?

And a dumb question: are you running make modules_install as root?

i just take what suse config says except nForce chipset

yes im root

More specifically, then, are there any modules that you are expecting to be compiled, which aren't?

ok
sound ,net ,fs modules
this are most important for me and are not there
in /lib/modules/2.4.22 is just a kernel folder but in 2.4.20-gb-suse
are much more like fs .....

i hope this helps

ahh and i forgot by make modules_install it make 2 errors

like

.......error 2
.......error 1

or something like this .

Can you post the last 20 or so lines of output from the compilation? "Error 1" and such is usually one of the last things it prints, but several lines before that it may have given an indication of what went wrong. That may help us to diagnose the problem better.

last few lines of make modules :

erred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -DMODULE -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=advansys -c -o advansys.o advansys.c
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.22/include/linux/blk.h:4,
from advansys.c:797:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22/include/linux/blkdev.h: In function `blk_queue_bounce':
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22/include/linux/blkdev.h:192: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22/include/linux/blkdev.h: In function `blk_finished_sectors':
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22/include/linux/blkdev.h:333: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
advansys.c: In function `asc_dequeue':
advansys.c:7575: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
advansys.c:7575: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
advansys.c: In function `asc_dequeue_list':
advansys.c:7631: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
advansys.c:7631: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
advansys.c:7660: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
advansys.c:7660: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
advansys.c: In function `asc_rmqueue':
advansys.c:7737: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
advansys.c:7737: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:35205: Warning: partial line at end of file ignored
gcc: Internal error: Segmentation fault (program cc1)
Please submit a full bug report.
See <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html> for instructions.
make[2]: *** [advansys.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22/drivers/scsi'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_scsi] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
linux:/usr/src/linux #



make modules_install :

cp: cannot stat `3w-xxxx.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `53c7,8xx.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `AM53C974.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `BusLogic.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `NCR53c406a.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `a100u2w.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `aha152x.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `aha1542.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `aha1740.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `aic7xxx_old.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `atp870u.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `cpqfc.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `dmx3191d.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `dpt_i2o.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `dtc.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `eata.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `eata_dma.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `eata_pio.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `fdomain.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `g_NCR5380.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `gdth.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `ide-scsi.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `imm.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `in2000.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `initio.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `ips.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `megaraid.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `ncr53c8xx.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `nsp32.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `osst.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `pas16.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `pci2000.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `pci2220i.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `ppa.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `psi240i.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `qla1280.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `qlogicfas.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `qlogicfc.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `qlogicisp.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `scsi_debug.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `seagate.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `sg.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `sr_mod.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `st.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `sym53c416.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `sym53c8xx.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `t128.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `tmscsim.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `u14-34f.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `ultrastor.o': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `wd7000.o': No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [_modinst__] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22/drivers/scsi'
make[1]: *** [_modinst_scsi] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22/drivers'
make: *** [_modinst_drivers] Error 2

It looks like here's the error which kills it. A segmentation fault is usually a very bad thing, and it's surprising to see one happening in the gcc compiler! Anyway, it appears that something in the advansys.c source code is what is leading to the seg fault, so my first suggestion would be to run the kernel configuration again (make xconfig, or make menuconfig) and see if you can find something called advansys. Looks like it's a SCSI driver of some kind...? Someone else may know. Anyhow, unless you need whatever advansys is, you can elect not to compile it. Save the config and try compiling again.

If that doesn't work, perhaps there is a problem with your gcc installation. If possible, try reinstalling all gcc-related packages.

If you still get the segmentation fault, perhaps it really is a bug in gcc! Help the developers out by submitting a bug report.

ok thx for a nice explain
i will give it a try