Building 2.6 kernels on FC1

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

Hi all,

I have been trying to track down the problems with my Firewire external
drive unit, and thought I would try building a 2.6.3 kernel using Red
Hat's spec for UP i686 on FC1, using gcc32 and gcc 3.3, and copy the
result over.

The result, simply said, is interesting. This is taken using 2.6.3-mm3
with gcc 3.3, but other results are similar.

/lib/modules/linux-2.6.3-mm3: 376 MB
linux-2.6.3-mm3 build directory: 1.4G
linux-2.6.3-mm3/arch/i386/boot/bzImage: 1.5M

saying those were a bit on the large size would be a bit of an
understatement..

it turns out make modules_install is doing bizarre things; a listing of
kernel/drivers/acpi does this for instance:
total 1768
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7938 Feb 24 23:58 ac.c
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       185294 Feb 24 23:58 ac.ko
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        33213 Feb 24 23:58 asus_acpi.c
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       204759 Feb 24 23:58 asus_acpi.ko
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        20347 Feb 24 23:58 battery.c
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       194175 Feb 24 23:58 battery.ko
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        13126 Feb 24 23:58 button.c
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       187411 Feb 24 23:58 button.ko
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         6658 Feb 24 23:58 fan.c
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       183526 Feb 24 23:58 fan.ko
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        61229 Feb 24 23:59 processor.c
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       240387 Feb 24 23:59 processor.ko
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        35245 Feb 25 00:00 thermal.c
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       206273 Feb 25 00:00 thermal.ko
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        13610 Feb 25 00:00 toshiba_acpi.c
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       189128 Feb 25 00:00 toshiba_acpi.ko

1) .c source files are installed
2) size bloat of an order of magnitude

I will try rebuilding the Fedora kernel next - on FC1 and FC2-devel,
gcc32 and gcc 3.3. Which reminds me - why does the kernel Makefile
define both HOSTCC and HOSTCXX ? IIRC the kernel contains zero LOC of C+
+.

Thanks,

- Michel
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