Bug 92978 – Kernel compilation error: timer_tsc.c

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Fabio 2005-05-17 13:21:39 UTC]

Hi guys, I'm trying to compile the kernel using universal cd (2005.0).
uname -a : Linux livecd 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 #1 SMP Fri Mar 18 21:30:04 UTC 2005
i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Thanks.

RTC support is enabled.
emerge --info 

Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.11-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 i686
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 11 2005, 00:07:42)]
dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups emboss encode f77
foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mad
mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python
quicktime readline sdl spell ssl svga tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY


Error messages:


CC arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.o
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c: In function `mach_countup':
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:36: error: section attribute cannot be
specified for local variables
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:304: error: initializer element is not constant
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:304: error: (near initialization for
`time_cpufreq_notifier_block.notifier_call')
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:317: error: initializer element is not constant
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:542: error: initializer element is not constant
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:542: error: (near initialization for
`__setup_tsc_setup.setup_func')
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:551: error: initializer element is not constant
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:551: error: (near initialization for
`timer_tsc.mark_offset')
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:552: error: initializer element is not constant
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:552: error: (near initialization for
`timer_tsc.get_offset')
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:553: error: initializer element is not constant
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:553: error: (near initialization for
`timer_tsc.monotonic_clock')
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:554: error: initializer element is not constant
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:554: error: (near initialization for
`timer_tsc.delay')
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:557: error: section attribute cannot be
specified for local variables
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:560: error: parse error at end of input
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:557: warning: unused variable `timer_tsc_init'
make[2]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/timers] Error 2
make: *** [arch/i386/kernel] Error 2 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.cd /usr/src/linux 
2. make (compile error)
3.

[Comment 1 Robin Johnson 2005-05-17 19:57:03 UTC]

please specify what kernel you were trying to compile.

[Comment 2 Fabio 2005-05-18 08:42:10 UTC]

Kernel: 2.6.11-gentoo-r3

[Comment 3 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2005-05-18 08:52:15 UTC]

Please attach the .config you are using.

[Comment 4 Fabio 2005-05-18 09:37:00 UTC]

Created attachment 59226 [details]
config kernel file

[Comment 5 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2005-05-18 16:31:06 UTC]

Can't reproduce here, on both gcc versions i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130 and
i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.3-20050110, compiling gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r9

Have you modified the sources at all? Might be worth "rm -rf" and re-merge just
to be sure.

[Comment 6 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2005-05-31 16:15:04 UTC]

See comment #5