Re: [gentoo-catalyst] catalyst can't compile a kernel

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 13:06 -0400, Anielkis Herrera Gonzalez wrote:
> ok, now I have catalyst-1.1.8 and genkernel-3.1.6 but, the same... the
> kernel doesn't compile.. same error, and the configuration is the same
> that I have been running here.

OK.  Care to do more than the first paragraph of my email? ;]

Like I said, according to what I see in the error, you aren't feeding
genkernel a configuration, at all.

> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:02 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > First, I would upgrade your snapshot to use the latest stable genkernel
> > (3.1.5).  You might also want to try using catalyst 1.1.8 if you are not
> > already.
> >
> > Now, do you have a boot/kernel/$kname/config definition in your spec
> > file?  Judging from what I see below, you do not.  If you would like to
> > use the kernel we used for 2005.0, then do the following:
> >
> > mkdir -p /etc/portage
> > echo "dev-util/livecd-kconfigs ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
> > emerge livecd-kconfigs
> >
> > You can then use the following items in your spec file to use the same
> > kernel.
> >
> > boot/kernel: gentoo
> > boot/kernel/gentoo/sources: gentoo-sources
> > boot/kernel/gentoo/config: /usr/share/livecd-2005.0/x86/2.6.11-smp.config
> >
> > Hope this helps...
> >
> > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 08:58 -0400, Anielkis Herrera Gonzalez wrote:
> > > well this is the last part of the log:
> > >
> > > * Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.1.0c
> > >
> > > * Compiling Linux Kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 for x86...
> > > * kernel: >> Running mrproper...
> >
> > > * config: Using config from /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6
> > > *         Previous config backed up to .config.bak
> > > *         >> Running oldconfig...
> >
> > This tells me that it looks like you didn't supply a config to catalyst.
> >
> > > I don't know how to interpret that result..  :-\

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