Re: Linux v2.6.27-rc1: fails to compile

[Grant Coady]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:40:49 +0200, Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hello Grant,
>On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:03:42AM +1000, Grant Coady wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:23:21 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> >It's two weeks (and one day), and the merge window is over.
>> >
>> >Finally. I don't know why, but this one really did feel pretty dang busy. 
>> >And the size of the -rc1 patch bears that out - at 12MB, it's about 50% 
>> >bigger than 26-rc1 (but not that much bigger than 24/25-rc1, so it's not 
>> >like it's anything unheard of).
>> 
>> Couple machines failed to compile with same error in different place:
>> 
>>   CC      arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.o
>> arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c: In function `acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_probe':
>> arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c:94: error: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
>> make[2]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.o] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/acpi] Error 2
>> make: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2
>> grant@peetoo:~/linux/linux-2.6.27-rc1a$
>> 
>This issue has been reported, this is due to your old compiler.
>Fix here:
>http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/29/48

Thanks, that does the trick :)

Grant.
>
>Regards,
>Frederik

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