Hi

I justed installed Suse 7.3 sparc platform on a Sun Ultra sparc10 which is working fine. I also have a adaptec 29160N adapter with with a SCSI drive which works fine on another system but under SuSE the kernel does not recognise it.

I there for tried to recomplie the kernel with support for this adapter but I am unable to complie the kernel, these where the steps taken:

cd /usr/src/linux
mrproper
make xconfig
"activate SCSI support for aic7xxxx"
make dep
make clean
make bzImage

My problem is when I try to make bzImage it gives me the following error:" make: *** No Rule to make target ´bzImage´. Stop. "

I then found info on the net stating that I can´t compile 2.4 kernels with gcc-2.95 but needed gcc-2.91.66 for it to compile. Is this true? If so where can I find it so that I may install it on my system? If this is the wrong is there another solution?

Thanking you for all your input

Tony

"make clean" is surely going to wipe all the work that "make dep" did? When I compile my kernel, I don't use make clean at all, although some guides advise you to do it before starting. Try without any "make clean" in there.

I believe that mrproper (google for where the name came from :-)) does everything that make clean does anyway, so as long as you're doing mrproper at the start, make clean doesn't have anything to do.

Thanx for the input but tried that already with no success

I've been using gcc 2.95.3 for quite some time and haven't had a problem
compiling 2.4.x kernels.
Faecal is right, the make clean will get rid of anything make dep creates.

Do you have the kernel tarball? If so, you might copy your .config file from
your /usr/src/linux directory to a safe place (/root?), and then untar your
kernel source again, just to be sure you don't have any strange problems
with the source. So, do:
rm -rf /usr/src/linux (should be a symlink)
tar zxvf linux-2.4.x.tar.gz
If this kernel is new enough, it will untar into linux.2.4.x, and you will have to do:
ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.x /usr/src/linux
then do:
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
cp /root/.config /usr/src/linux
make dep
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install

Good luck!