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Is there anybody compiled kernel 2.1.109 successful on Linux/Alpha?
I always encountered this error:

make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.1.109/mm'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.1.109/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2
 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mno-fp-regs -ffixed-8   -c -o page_alloc.o
page_all
oc.c
page_alloc.c: In function `__free_page':
page_alloc.c:170: internal error--unrecognizable insn:
(jump_insn 300 292 301 (return) -1 (nil)
    (nil))
cpp: output pipe has been closed
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:177: Warning: Missing .end or .bend at end of file
gcc Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 6
make[2]: *** [page_alloc.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.1.109/mm'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.1.109/mm'
make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2

What's wrong with it?

My box is Alpha UDB, running Red Hat 5.1 with kernel 2.0.34.

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C.W.Huang
Coordinator of Linux HOWTOs Chinese Translation
http://www.phys.ntu.edu.tw/~cwhuang/pub/os/linux/CLDP/

I have the same problem with egcs 1.0.3a with optimization, along with
others in this group.  Please search for keyword "compile" in this
newgroup using dejanews.com for the past a few days, and you will get your
answer.

Jack

I tried to compile 2.1.110 yesterday, but failed again,
with different reason...
Why?

make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.1.110/mm'
make all_targets
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.1.110/mm'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.1.110/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mno-fp-regs -ffixed-8   -c -o vmalloc.o
vmalloc.c
vmalloc.c: In function `get_vm_area':
vmalloc.c:165: `VMALLOC_END' undeclared (first use this function)
vmalloc.c:165: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
vmalloc.c:165: for each function it appears in.)
make[3]: *** [vmalloc.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.1.110/mm'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.1.110/mm'
make[1]: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.1.110'
make: *** [mm] Error 2

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C.W.Huang
Coordinator of Linux HOWTOs Chinese Translation
http://www.phys.ntu.edu.tw/~cwhuang/pub/os/linux/CLDP/

There is a bad vmalloc patch that slipped in somehwere in the general
vicinity of 2.1.110pre2->2.1.110. AFAIK, it is still in the latest
(2.1.111pre1?). If you want to compile a kernel this recent, you must
back out the vmalloc patch (patch -R) by hand.

Also, you might think about subscribing to the kernel mailing list,
where this issue (and others like it) get covered in painful detail,
some days before you'll see them mentioned on Uselessnet. Beware,
though: the kernel ML has >200 messages per day, at times.

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It should be available in the kernel list archives somewhere.
I'll email you a copy anyway as it's not too big.

Linux picu-sgh.demon.co.uk 2.1.110 #7 Wed Jul 22 19:15:30 BST 1998 alpha unknown
  8:44pm  up  1:06,  3 users,  load average: 0.54, 0.14, 0.04