2.6.35.10-74 compilation (and build) problems

[JD]

On 01/06/2011 12:45 PM, Don Zickus wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:53:24AM -0800, JD wrote:
>>>> as a base config file (such as ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/config-x86-generic
>>>> (my arch is i686), when building from a new source rpm release.
>>>> It never yielded a kernel with my drivers enabled.
>>> Try config-i686-PAE and see if that works instead.  That file overrides
>>> config-x86-generic (according to Makefile.config) and fedora uses i686-PAE
>>> by default.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Don
>>>
>> But my architecture is not PAE!!! I have a uni-core 64bit cpu,
>> but prefer to run in 32bit mode because of all the crappy issues I have
>> had with 3rd party plugins not being available for 64 bit native.
>> I hate wrappers - they are a terrible kludge.
>> In addition, I only have 2GB ram - so PAE does not provide me with
>> any advantages. Nothing so huge that needs more than 3GB virtual space.
>> Looking at ..../SOURCES/ dir, I do not see a generic config file for non-PAE
>> i686 architecture.
> Relax, all I asked was for you to copy your custom config to
> config-i686-PAE.  I didn't imply you were using PAE.  Remember Fedora
> doesn't care about your configs, they only care about theirs.  Their
> config uses PAE as default.  Therefore when you ran rpmbuild -bb, the
> Makefile.config probably munged your config-x86-generic changes with
> config-i686-PAE and used that output for the build.
>
> Just try copying it and see if it works, we can fix things later.
>
> Cheers,
> Don
OK Don I will try it.
Will let you know.

Cheers,

JD