Hi I am having trouble compiling some 2.6 kernels on a x86_64 box under CentOS4.1. I cannot use xconfig at all and menuconfig on my system is unreadable. It appears to be something to do with the Qt library but I have all the necessary bits installed: qt-devel-3.3.3-9.3 qt-3.3.3-9.3 but note that the second of these only is installed both for x86 and x86_64 - the first is installed for x86_64 only. I have tried both the standard kernel 2.6.9-11.EL-smp-x86_64 and also 2.6.11.12 and the same problem exists. Googling around, it appears to be to do with a makefile in scripts/kconfig and none of the fixes work. On issuing make xconfig, the messages always end up: HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/qconf /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf] Error 1 make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 and the fixes suggest removing the middle two lines in scripts/kconfig/Makefile (starting at line 130 for the 2.6.11.12 case): LIBPATH=$$DIR/lib; LIB=qt; \ - $(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory > /dev/null 2>&1 && \ - LIBPATH=$$DIR/lib/$$($(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory); \ if [ -f $$LIBPATH/libqt-mt.so ]; then LIB=qt-mt; fi; \ But that still returns the same fault. Can anyone advise? The same kernel compiles perfectly on an x86 box. TIA John John Logsdon "Try to make things as simple Quantex Research Ltd, Manchester UK as possible but not simpler" j.logsdon at quantex-research.com a.einstein at relativity.org +44(0)161 445 4951/G:+44(0)7717758675 www.quantex-research.com
John Logsdon wrote:> Hi > > I am having trouble compiling some 2.6 kernels on a x86_64 box under > CentOS4.1. I cannot use xconfig at all and menuconfig on my system is > unreadable. It appears to be something to do with the Qt library but I > have all the necessary bits installed: > > qt-devel-3.3.3-9.3 > qt-3.3.3-9.3 > > but note that the second of these only is installed both for x86 and > x86_64 - the first is installed for x86_64 only. > > I have tried both the standard kernel 2.6.9-11.EL-smp-x86_64 and also > 2.6.11.12 and the same problem exists. Googling around, it appears to be > to do with a makefile in scripts/kconfig and none of the fixes work. > > On issuing make xconfig, the messages always end up: > > HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/qconf > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf] Error 1 > make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 > > and the fixes suggest removing the middle two lines in > scripts/kconfig/Makefile (starting at line 130 for the 2.6.11.12 case): > > LIBPATH=$$DIR/lib; LIB=qt; \ > - $(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory > /dev/null 2>&1 && \ > - LIBPATH=$$DIR/lib/$$($(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory); \ > if [ -f $$LIBPATH/libqt-mt.so ]; then LIB=qt-mt; fi; \ > > But that still returns the same fault. > > Can anyone advise? The same kernel compiles perfectly on an x86 box.I don't think you should remove those two lines - the patch I've been using is: *** ./scripts/kconfig/Makefile.dist 2005-08-25 10:41:16.713246000 +0100 --- ./scripts/kconfig/Makefile 2005-09-23 14:47:45.815370614 +0100 *************** *** 130,137 **** false; \ fi; \ LIBPATH=$$DIR/lib; LIB=qt; \ ! $(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory > /dev/null 2>&1 && \ ! LIBPATH=$$DIR/lib/$$($(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory); \ if [ -f $$LIBPATH/libqt-mt.so ]; then LIB=qt-mt; fi; \ echo "QTDIR=$$DIR" > $@; echo "QTLIBPATH=$$LIBPATH" >> $@; \ echo "QTLIB=$$LIB" >> $@; \ --- 130,137 ---- false; \ fi; \ LIBPATH=$$DIR/lib; LIB=qt; \ ! $(HOSTCXX)-print-multi-os-directory > /dev/null 2>&1 && \ ! LIBPATH=$$DIR/lib/$$($(HOSTCXX)-print-multi-os-directory); \ if [ -f $$LIBPATH/libqt-mt.so ]; then LIB=qt-mt; fi; \ echo "QTDIR=$$DIR" > $@; echo "QTLIBPATH=$$LIBPATH" >> $@; \ echo "QTLIB=$$LIB" >> $@; \ James Pearson
John Logsdon wrote:> Hi > > I am having trouble compiling some 2.6 kernels on a x86_64 box under > CentOS4.1. I cannot use xconfig at all and menuconfig on my system is > unreadable. It appears to be something to do with the Qt library but I > have all the necessary bits installed: >This kernel patch will fix the xconfig problem. --- linux-2.6.9/scripts/kconfig/Makefile 2005-10-03 10:28:56.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.9.patched/scripts/kconfig/Makefile 2005-10-03 10:30:09.000000000 -0700 @@ -130,8 +130,6 @@ $(obj)/.tmp_qtcheck: false; \ fi; \ LIBPATH=$$DIR/lib; LIB=qt; \ - $(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory > /dev/null 2>&1 && \ - LIBPATH=$$DIR/lib/$$($(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory); \ if [ -f $$LIBPATH/libqt-mt.so ]; then LIB=qt-mt; fi; \ echo "QTDIR=$$DIR" > $@; echo "QTLIBPATH=$$LIBPATH" >> $@; \ echo "QTLIB=$$LIB" >> $@; \ -- Jay Hilliard Sr. Systems Administrator Disney Feature Animation