Re: Error compiling linux 2.6.8 with ruby on Debian

[Andrew W. <qw...@gm...>]

On Wed, 18 May 2005 10:41 pm, Aivils wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 May 2005 12:02, Andrew Walbran wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 May 2005 5:51 pm, Aivils wrote:
> > > On Monday 16 May 2005 08:23, Andrew Walbran wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to compile a kernel with the ruby patch under Debian
> > > > sarge. I am using gcc 3.3.5. I downloaded and unpacked
> > > > kernel-source-2.6.8, downloaded ruby from CVS, and copied it over the
> > > > kernel source. I then did 'make xconfig', following instructions from
> > > > http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/quick.html. Some options seemed
> > > > to have different names, but otherwise everything seemed alright.
> > > >
> > > > I then attempted to compile with
> > > > # fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
> > > > which failed with the following error:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > > What is wrong here, and how can I get it to compile successfully?
> > >
> > > Do You use right CVS tag ?
> > >
> > > cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/linuxconsole
> > > login cvs -z3
> > > -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/linuxconsole co -r
> > > v2-6-8 ruby
> >
> > I'm pretty sure I did, and ruby/CVS/Tag indeed says 'Tv2-6-8'.
> >
> > drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c: In function `change_termios':
> > drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c:110: error: structure has no member named
> > `termios_sem'
>
> This member does not exist in v2-6-8 :o)
I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. If you mean that the error is due to 
me not using v2-6-8, I've tried again checking out v2-6-8 using the commands 
you gave above, and diff -r shows there is no difference between that and 
what I used before, so I was definitely using v2-6-8.

Andrew Walbran