Re: [uml-user] Patch failed

[Jan H. <bu...@uc...>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:35:31PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I am running Red Hat 8.0. I downloaded the linux-2.4.20 kernel from 
> kernel.org, and unpacked it into /usr/local/src. I did a "make mrproper 
> distclean" and then applied uml-patch-2.4.19-48. I got the following 
> error:
> 
>     patching file include/linux/raid/md_compatible.h
>     Hunk #1 FAILED at 34.
>     1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file 
>     include/linux/raid/md_compatible.h.rej
> 
> Even when I deliberately take out RAID support from the kernel, it
> refuses to build. I get tons of warnings, and eventually the compile
> dies.
> 
> Am I missing something simple? Has anyone gotten 2.4.20 to compile under
> Red Hat 8.0?

From what I saw on the list before, uml patches are not likely to apply
to other than vanilla kernels they are made for. Thus
uml-patch-2.4.19-48 is not likely to apply to anything else than
linux-2.4.19 (and work).

PS: Hope you are not compiling with gcc-2.96, which is a redhat
prerelease known to get kenel compilation all wrong.

PPS: make mrproper and make distclean do exactly the same (they used to
differ is a small detail and IIRC now they do not differ at all) and
neither of them should be needed, but in practice they are needed when
you patch a tree in which you already compiled for another platform or
with another compiler, or sometimes when the patch changes dependencies
enough for make to get them wrong.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bu...@uc...>