I having a hell of a time trying to get any kernel compile working. The make command doesn't
work on any kernel I've tried it on. I've never had problems before. I currently am running
slackware-current and kernel-2.6.8.1. This is the error messages I get:
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
In file included from /usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h:153,
from /usr/include/limits.h:144,
from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.4/include/limits.h:122,
from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.4/include/syslimits.h:7,
from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.4/include/limits.h:11,
from scripts/basic/fixdep.c:113:
/usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/include/sys/socket.h:35,
from /usr/include/netinet/in.h:24,
from /usr/include/arpa/inet.h:23,
from scripts/basic/fixdep.c:115:
/usr/include/bits/socket.h:304:24: asm/socket.h: No such file or directory
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function `use_config':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:201: error: `PATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:201: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:201: error: for each function it appears in.)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:201: warning: unused variable `s'
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function `parse_dep_file':
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:297: error: `PATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:297: warning: unused variable `s'
make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1
make: *** [scripts_

Any help would be appreciated. I hate to have to do a reinstall.

Did you install the kernel header package ?

Can you explain to me the significance? As in is it good or bad if one did install the kernel header package.

I did install the kernel header package from testing (2.6.7) from the CD. Am compiling 2.6.9 now.

What I did was download the kernel-2.6.9 from www.kernel.org and proceed to compile. I'm tried downloading three other kernel versions. Each time I do a make menuconfig, or make xconfig that error message I posted pops up. I've never had a problem before this, and I've done everything the same way. I was going to patch the 2.6.8.1 to 2.6.9 but can't. I forgot what errors popped up for that one.

Install the kernel-headers package that comes with slackware. Those are the headers used to compile glibc and are needed for compiling of some programs.

As far as you kernel headers are concerned...

Commonly there's two things ... Slack will have two
lots of kernel-headers. One lot in /usr/include/linux
which you should have regardless of whether you install
the kernel-source package or not so you're able to
compile system-level code, and one under the respective
kernel-source tree (in your case /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/include).

Word of caution: one should NOT upgrade the /usr/include/linux
with a kernel upgrade.

OOPs,
I did forget to install the Kernel-header package. I think I'll be able to continue now. I don't recall doing that in previous compiles. Thanks for all you help. Now the fun part begins!!