Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:01:37 +1000 | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.36-rc3 - Unable to build: "Error: input truncated" |
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Hi.
On 13/09/10 13:11, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:07:45 +1000 Nigel Cunningham wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> On 13/09/10 03:34, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>> On Sunday, September 12, 2010, Nigel Cunningham wrote: >>>> Hi all. >>>> >>>> I'm unable to compile the latest kernel and git bisect isn't helping: >>> >>> Did you try to save .config, run "make distclean" and restore .config? >> >> I hadn't tried that, but had done git reset --hard and make clean >> menuconfig bzImage. Trying distclean doesn't help, I'm afraid. Perhaps I >> should attach my .config. I'm running a 32 bit kernel/distro on a 64 bit >> machine if that makes any difference. > > > Try to strace scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig to see why it is producing > that error message: > > scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig< scripts/mod/empty.o> scripts/mod/elfconfig.h > Error: input truncated > > I guess that the empty.o file is not in the expected format.
Yeah. It's zero bytes long.
> Who owns that stuff, anyway?
I figured the kbuild guys did, which is why I cc'd them.
> You should probably post the empty.o file so that interested parties can > try to debug the problem. > > I built the kernel just fine with the .config file that you posted.
Okay. So it's probably something specific to Ubuntu Lucid then. I'll see if I can find the time to do a bisection by hand.
Nigel
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