[U-Boot-Users] Eldk-4.0 mips_4KC-gcc building linux-2.4.31 error

[KokHow.Teh at infineon.com]

Hi;
	I am using eldk-4.0 mips_4KC to build linux-2.4.31 and stumbled
at this error:

/opt/eldk/usr/bin/mips_4KC-gcc -D__KERNEL__
-I/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_l
xdb1.1/source/kernel/opensource/linux-2.4.31/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -
Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common  -fomit-frame-pointer
-I /vob
s/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/opensource/linux-2.4.
31/inclu
de/asm/gcc -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -pipe  -finline-limit=100000
-mabi=32 -ma
rch=mips32 -Wa,-32 -Wa,-march=mips32 -Wa,-mips32 -Wa,--trap
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=
do_mounts -c -o init/do_mounts.o init/do_mounts.c
In file included from
/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/ope
nsource/linux-2.4.31/include/linux/byteorder/big_endian.h:11,
                 from
/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/ope
nsource/linux-2.4.31/include/asm/byteorder.h:23,
                 from
/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/ope
nsource/linux-2.4.31/include/linux/kernel.h:15,
                 from
/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/ope
nsource/linux-2.4.31/include/linux/wait.h:13,
                 from
/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/ope
nsource/linux-2.4.31/include/linux/fs.h:12,
                 from
/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/ope
nsource/linux-2.4.31/include/linux/capability.h:17,
                 from
/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/ope
nsource/linux-2.4.31/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
                 from
/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/ope
nsource/linux-2.4.31/include/linux/sched.h:10,
                 from
/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/ope
nsource/linux-2.4.31/include/linux/mm.h:4,
                 from
/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/ope
nsource/linux-2.4.31/include/linux/slab.h:14,
                 from init/do_mounts.c:3:
/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/opensource/linux-
2.4.31/i
nclude/linux/byteorder/swab.h:160: warning: type qualifiers ignored on
function
return type
/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/opensource/linux-
2.4.31/i
nclude/linux/byteorder/swab.h:173: warning: type qualifiers ignored on
function
return type
/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/opensource/linux-
2.4.31/i
nclude/linux/byteorder/swab.h:186: warning: type qualifiers ignored on
function
return type
/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/opensource/linux-
2.4.31/i
nclude/linux/byteorder/swab.h:200: warning: type qualifiers ignored on
function
return type
init/do_mounts.c:55: error: static declaration of 'root_device_name'
follows non
-static declaration
/vobs/project/comac/comac_amazon_lxdb1.1/source/kernel/opensource/linux-
2.4.31/i
nclude/linux/fs.h:1566: error: previous declaration of
'root_device_name' was he
re
init/do_mounts.c: In function 'identify_ramdisk_image':
init/do_mounts.c:511: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of
'read' d
iffer in signedness
init/do_mounts.c:555: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of
'read' d
iffer in signedness
init/do_mounts.c: In function 'fill_inbuf':
init/do_mounts.c:1019: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of
'read'
differ in signedness
init/do_mounts.c: In function 'flush_window':
init/do_mounts.c:1037: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of
'write'
 differ in signedness
make: *** [init/do_mounts.o] Error 1
[tehkok at linux01 linux-2.4.31 229]$

	Any advice and insight is appreciated. Thanks!

Regards,
KH