From: jmsimon@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jeffrey M. Simon) Subject: PROBLEM: Kernel compiles fail miserably... Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 21:03:44 GMT
Okay, so here's the sitch.
I'm doing a little systems integration, and using Linux as the OS on
a dedicated facsimile server; the machine is an 80386sx/33 which will
eventually have 4mb of RAM but has 16mb for development purposes. The
machine has a 130mb IDE drive as well.
For some reason, I am unable to successfully compile a new kernel for this
beast (in order to remove bunches of SCSI drivers that are not needed on
the machine).
Here's what happens:
The compile starts, gets through _some_ of the compile, and then
tells me that one of the called subprograms of gcc caught a signal
11, exiting. If I keep typing make, eventually I get to the point
in the kernel where it builds the file systems, and each source
file is too large -- it always fails within the first (symlink.c
I think) and can't get by.
I've gotten around the problem by simply mounting the 386sx drive on my
486dx/33 with 16mb and running the build there. I'm just a bit concerned
that this system won't be able to keep up with being a faxserver.
What thinketh you?
By the way: the 80386sx/33 also has 20mb swap allocated, and I better not
hear that the system is low on memory :-)
Thanks for your assistance,
J
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