From: Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.4 failure to compile
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:38:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B040C80.C2A7BC6@sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1010517132052.14991A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
>
> Hello;
>
> I downloaded linux-2.4.4. The basic kernel compiles but the aic7xxx
> SCSI module that I require on some machines, doesn't.
The aic7xxx assembler requiring libdb1 is a bungle. Getting the headers
for that right on various distros is not easy. Add to that it requires
YACC, when most people have bison (yes, a shell script is easy to make, but
not always an option).
--
Tim Hockin
Systems Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances
thockin@sun.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-17 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-17 17:23 Linux-2.4.4 failure to compile Richard B. Johnson
2001-05-17 17:38 ` Tim Hockin [this message]
2001-05-17 18:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-05-17 18:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-17 18:47 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-05-17 18:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-18 6:32 ` Lorenzo Marcantonio
2001-05-18 10:41 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-05-19 12:16 ` David Weinehall
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-17 18:33 Cress, Andrew R
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