Neither the kernel, nor the source codes of other applications



Could someone tell me what's wrong please?

Do you have gcc and other development tools installed?

Could you provide us with details?

when I was trying to compile some source code of drivers, there are always report of syntax error
when I was trying to compile the kernel, after typing "make", it goes like this:

CHK include/linux/version.h
SPLIT include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
CHK include/asm-x86_64/offset.h
HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/genksyms.o
HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/lex.o
HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/parse.o
HOSTLD scripts/genksyms/genksyms
CC scripts/mod/empty.o
MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o
scripts/mod/sumversion.c: In function ‘parse_file’:
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:260: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘grab_file’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:277: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘parse_string’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:283: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘parse_comment’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c: In function ‘parse_source_files’:
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:335: warning: pointer targets in initialization differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:344: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:357: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘parse_file’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c: In function ‘strip_rcs_crap’:
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘__builtin_strcmp’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘__builtin_strcmp’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘__builtin_strcmp’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘__builtin_strcmp’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:465: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strncmp’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:469: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:469: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:469: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:485: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:486: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ differ in signedness
scripts/mod/sumversion.c: In function ‘maybe_frob_rcs_version’:
scripts/mod/sumversion.c:496: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘strip_rcs_crap’ differ in signedness
HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `init/main.o', needed by `init/built-in.o'. Stop.
make: *** [init] Error 2


thank you in advance

# gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,java,f95,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre --host=x86_64-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)

dexterwy,

I had similar issues after installing fc4. Nothing would compile with the default version of gcc (which I think is v4.0.0). I got around it by setting the compiler to be gcc32 (ie, gcc v3.2), and everything worked fine. It seems that gcc 4.0.0 is pretty broken.

To get an app to compile using gcc32 (which is included with fc4), instead of just running ./configure, run ./configure -CC=gcc32. If that doesn't work, check the makefile of the app you are compiling, there will be a similar option/variable to set to change the c compiler.

Alternatively, you could get the latest minor update of gcc, 4.0.2, which I have heard has fixed most of these bugs.

Hope this helps,