cannot compile kernel[solved]

Adel Ahmed · Veteran Joined: 21 Sep 2012 Posts: 1523

I have restore gentoo from a tar backup(it was a hot backup if that makes any difference), the system boots fine but I cannot compile my kernel anymore
localhost linux # make menuconfig
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:106:23: fatal error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1
make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2

I though I'd try recompiling glibc:
* failed to configure glibc
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 93: Called src_compile
* environment, line 3139: Called eblit-run 'src_compile'
* environment, line 910: Called eblit-glibc-src_compile
* src_compile.eblit, line 259: Called src_compile
* environment, line 3139: Called eblit-run 'src_compile'
* environment, line 910: Called eblit-glibc-src_compile
* src_compile.eblit, line 267: Called toolchain-glibc_src_compile
* src_compile.eblit, line 165: Called glibc_do_configure 'nptl'
* src_compile.eblit, line 113: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* "$@" || die "failed to configure glibc"
*

any help?

thanks

toralf · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 10:27 am Post subject:

its glibc related :

Adel Ahmed · Veteran Joined: 21 Sep 2012 Posts: 1523

I can't recompile glibc though
should I try downloading the file manually from another system?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 2:03 pm Post subject:

blakdeath,

horrible things will happen if you manage to downgrade glibc accidently.

If you have another box with the same glibc version, copy over the missing file.
If its more that one or two files, you will need a binary glibc for the same arch and the same version of glbc to fix it.
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Adel Ahmed · Veteran Joined: 21 Sep 2012 Posts: 1523

well the entire sys directory was missing so I copied it over and everything is working now
it's a flaw in my backup scrip(--exclude=sys/)
I'll work on that and deleted all my old backup images

thanks

toralf · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 2:49 pm Post subject:

???
/sys is (like /proc and /run) a dir which is fullfilled during boot of the kernel

Adel Ahmed · Veteran Joined: 21 Sep 2012 Posts: 1523

I was trying to exclude /sys from the image and /usr/include/sys got included by mistake

toralf · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 3:11 pm Post subject:

Ick - yeah - IIRC, I made a similar mistake, now I Prepend a "/" in my exclude files to avoid such things

BobWya · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 12:05 am Post subject:

@tralf / @blakdeath,

Was hacking about and tar'd up a Gentoo install from laptop to fix my desktop install... Getting lots of weird errors. So it turns out all those guides telling me to use --exclude=sys are pretty dumb (if that string is just a path match)!! One actually said something along the lines of you don't need "/sys" just use "sys" blah, blah...

Thanks sorted out my compile errors!

Robert
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