[ale] Comp Compile

[Dunlap, Randy]

Don't look at vmlinux.  Look at
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage instead.
It should match your compiler output: > System is 343 kB

Another option is "make bzImage" instead of zImage.

HTH.  I didn't quite understand what your problem
is/was.

~Randy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: jj at spiderentertainment.com [mailto:jj at spiderentertainment.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 1:09 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Comp Compile
> 
> 
> I have a small problem, I have a busy server, and I need to recompile
> the Kernel, once compiled the size was 755K, so I used 
> zImage, the size
> was still 755, then I used bzImage, still 755k, any ideas ? I inculde
> the last few lines of output from the compiler, any help as always is
> greatly appriciated.
> 
> All the options that have modules I selected as modules. I 
> tried it with
> many different config types, also I selected only the drivers that are
> neccessary!. Am I doing something wrong ?
> After compile the only file that is there is vmlinux, is even being
> compressed ?
> 
> rc/linux-2.0.36/arch/i386/lib/lib.a -o vmlinux
> nm vmlinux | grep -v '\(compiled\)\|\(\.o$\)\|\( a \)' | sort >
> System.map
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/arch/i386/boot'
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
> tmppiggy=/tmp/$$piggy; \
> rm -f $tmppiggy $tmppiggy.gz $tmppiggy.lnk; \
> if hash encaps 2> /dev/null; then \
>   objdump -k -q  -o 0x100000 /usr/src/linux-2.0.36/vmlinux > 
> $tmppiggy;
> \
> else \
>   objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -R .stab -R .stabstr
> /usr/src/linux-2.0.36/vmlinux $tmppiggy; \
> fi; \
> gzip -f -9 < $tmppiggy > $tmppiggy.gz; \
> if hash encaps 2> /dev/null; then \
>   encaps --target elf32-i386 piggy.o $tmppiggy.gz input_data 
> input_len;
> \
> else \
>   echo "SECTIONS { .data : { input_len = .; LONG(input_data_end -
> input_data) input_data = .; *(.data) input_data_end = .; }}" >
> $tmppiggy.lnk; \
>   ld -m elf_i386 -m elf_i386 -r -o piggy.o -b binary $tmppiggy.gz -b
> elf32-i386 -T $tmppiggy.lnk; \
> fi; \
> rm -f $tmppiggy $tmppiggy.gz $tmppiggy.lnk
> ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x1000 -e startup_32  -o vmlinux head.o misc.o
> piggy.o
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
> if hash encaps 2> /dev/null; then \
>   objdump -k -q  -o 0x1000 compressed/vmlinux > 
> compressed/vmlinux.out;
> \
> else \
>   objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -R .stab -R .stabstr
> compressed/vmlinux compressed/vmlinux.out; \
> fi
> tools/build bootsect setup compressed/vmlinux.out CURRENT > zImage
> Root device is (8, 1)
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 4408 bytes.
> System is 343 kB
> sync
> 
> Thank you
>