Recompiling 2.4.26-openmosix1 under Debian Etch

Tony Travis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cluster.openmosix.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I've been running the 2.4.22-openmosix-2 kernel that I compiled under 
Red Hat 9 for a couple of years and although it works quite well, it 
seems to cause some programs that work fine under the Red Hat kernel to 
core-dump occasionally under openMosix. I decided to try upgrading to 
the 'latest' stable 2.4 openMosix kernel. This compiles fine using the 
Red Hat 9 tool-chain (gcc 3.2.2), but fails to compile under Debian 
Etch, which I am attempting to upgrade our Beowulf to from Red Hat 9.

Various errors occur using any of gcc-2.95.4,3.3,3.4,4.0,4.1 available 
in all versions (stable, testing, unstable) of the Debian repositories. 
In desperation, I downloaded and bootstrapped gcc-2.95:3 as described in 
nthe openMosix FAQ, but to no avail: It seems that the problems I had 
recompiling openMosix under Debian Etch are due to the version of "as" 
in binutils-2.17-2 (testing). If I 'pin' binutils-2.15-6 (stable) the 
compile with gcc-2.95:3 works and I get a bootable openMosix kernel.

My questions are:

1. Has anyone else recompiled the 2.4.26-openmosix1 kernel under Debian 
Etch and found the same problem?

2. Would I be better off using Debian Sarge for openMosix?

3. What is the currently recommended tool-chain for recompiling the 
2.4.26-openmosix1 kernel under Debian?

4. Has anyone got 2.4 or 2.6 openMosix running under Ubuntu?

Best wishes,

	Tony.
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