Hi all,

I am trying to compile a custom Linux kernel for a custom arch build I am doing. I am getting a compile error on the make command.

ran steps as follows:-

make clean && make mrproper
zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
make nconfig
customise the kernel, save
make

http://i775.photobucket.com/albums/y...ileerror_1.jpg

The image above shows the compile errors. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks In Advance,

Chaos

I run NoScript, and Photobucket runs so many scripts that I'm not getting your errors, but their errors. Why don't you make your errors more available to us? Rewrite, or attach a small jpeg to the thread. The first few errors usually contain the significant one, the remainder being the tailspin. The exception can be python, but there's not a lot of that in kernel builds.

And they insist I stop my adblocker so I can use their site. I'm more than happy not to use their site.

If you have netcat installed, try this; save the errors, thenPost the link it returns - we can all curl that to see the data without commercial intrusions.

@OP

I agree with the others above, that you should find another way for providing error logs and such.

That said, I suggest you to take a look at the response at your other (closed as duplicate) post and apply the patch needed for using gcc-7.1 while compiling a kernel.

Regards

@bathory: thanks! Could you explain a bit more (or post a link) about:
>"patch[?] needed for using gcc-7.1 while compiling a kernel"
I tried searching it, and found some things like: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs...neral/gcc.html
I dug some more, using DistroWatch search gcc > 7, and only a few ?rolling? distros use >6.3!
(https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/changes.html mentions -fdiagnostics-generate-patch but I'm clueless!)
Does that address this? Sorry, I'm newbie on the depths of this (although I knew a little C long ago, and successfully `make tinyconfig`'ed a 4.9 on NuTyX gcc 6.2/3 a half year ago).

Still, the question is: whether OP is using gcc 7.x or 6.x

p.s. I managed to download the photo, and attach it here as a .jpg! Yea: now view-able

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Hi Jjanel

I'm running Slackware64-current that's using gcc-7.1. I also like to compile my own kernels for testing, but I didn't came across the error posted by OP with 4.11.5. So I look deeper and realized that this is because I don't add GCOV support to my kernels.

After enabling GCOV, the kernel failed to compile with the exact same error (even the latest 4.11.6 that came out today). This is because
That's also answers your question about the gcc version that OP uses.


FYI, I applied the patch (got it from the bottom of this page) and the new 4.11.6 compiled successfully.

Regards

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