Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:28:20 -0700 | From | "Justin P. Mattock" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.36-rc3 - Unable to build: "Error: input truncated" |
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On 09/12/2010 10:01 PM, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
probably the same thing I was hitting last week or similar... bisected resulted in crazy numbers(way back in may) long story short git clean -fx resolved the error over here..(so tied up with other things something as simple as that, I forgot)
hope this helps..
Justin P. Mattock
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